foment

It was an early list of complaints against the crown and helped foment the American Revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

They can inflame internal and external tensions and foment uncertainty.

From Barron's ● Mar. 7, 2026

Those contests, like many others, involved months of trash-talking on both sides, and often foment internal warfare.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025

About 30 years later, John Brown’s bloody plot to foment a slave revolt awakened many Northerners’ rage against the “slaveocracy,” ratcheting up the momentum toward civil war.

From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2024

Also, some growers’ associations, threatened by the return of interned farmers, had been using the war as a way to foment hostile feelings in the major farming areas.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

The text of the newly proposed Bill C-34 lists seven categories of "harmful content", which includes material bullying a child, or that foments hatred, or incites violence.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

There, sharing a theatre stage with a dozen other religious representatives, he urged all religions to live in harmony and shun ideological fundamentalism that foments violence.

From Reuters ● Sep. 3, 2023

In practice, the movement spreads falsehoods and foments conspiracy theories about evolution.

From Scientific American ● May 12, 2023

A few protesters rallied near the square where Meloni spoke, with one of them holding a sign contending the leader foments hate.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 23, 2022

Canto V. Not content with beguiling many knights, Armida further foments a quarrel between Rinaldo and Gernando, Prince of Norway, in regard to the command of the Adventurous Band, which is now without a leader.

From The Book of the Epic by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

The paranoia and fear fomented by the sweeping immigration crackdown in the Midwestern state has led many migrants -- both those with legal status and those without -- to shelter at home, campaigners say.

From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026

Ms. Nadell is convincing that anti-Israel movements have fomented antisemitism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025

The horrific images that have emerged from the area during these hellish recent months have fomented a sea change in the dialogue around it.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2025

Sure, there’s the existential dread fomented by these trying times that makes contemplating the present and future near impossible on most days that end with "y."

From Salon ● May 27, 2024

Lander’s rhetoric inflamed passions; he fomented rebellion; he was too uppity to allow to run free.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

The company’s rise, the Journal wrote, was “undermining the whole real-estate brokerage system,” squeezing out some competitors while fomenting a “sudden explosion” of imitators.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

However, the ill-feeling has been fomenting for much longer.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Paz's government accuses Morales, who attempted a comeback last year despite being wanted on charges of trafficking a minor, of fomenting the current unrest.

From Barron's ● May 22, 2026

As so much of the culture divides itself into fomenting herds, Bargatze offers his fans the relief of a non-divisive presence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025

Mom is fomenting her own brand of anarchy closer to home.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García