ferment
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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
By dint of pandemic pauses and far-flung locales around the U.K.’s Cotswolds and on the Welsh Borders, the lineup managed to quietly ferment and realize some of that long-ago unknown magical mystery.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025
Does the party have the means to ferment a counterculture that is agile, tech-savvy, and fashionable?
From Slate • Jun. 12, 2025
Calmly, Granddaddy said, “I have managed to take perfectly good pecans and ferment them into something approximating cat piss.”
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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