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ferment

[fur-ment, fer-ment] / ˈfɜr mɛnt, fərˈmɛnt /




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Then we let it ferment and age to make soy sauce.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

When they ferment sugars, they create tiny outward flowing currents across the wet surface.

From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026

Most modern artists, famously Picasso, left their home turf for some center of creative ferment, finding their voices there.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2025

Bottum, the co-founder of the band Faith No More, offers up an elegy to a lost time and place: pre-tech bro San Francisco in the 1980s, when cultural ferment was in the air.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2025

He turned and limped away, leaving Ranofer staring after him in a ferment of joy.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw




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