foment
Example Sentences
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A better strategy would focus on how we can work with our allies, not on fomenting domestic revolutions most of their citizens don’t want.
Those contests, like many others, involved months of trash-talking on both sides, and often foment internal warfare.
From Los Angeles Times
But it’s the lack of transparency and the 11-month delay in reporting the reading that has fomented community mistrust and raised questions regarding the military’s competency to safely clean up the polluted shipyard.
From Los Angeles Times
He condemned Fuentes, saying he was “fomenting Jew hatred, and his incitements are not only immoral and un-Christian, they risk violence.”
From Los Angeles Times
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
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