simmering

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Hours later, the country’s best women’s lacrosse player was back on that wall, simmering, practicing once more with that fifth-grade stick.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Corporate credit spreads have also remained relatively calm, despite simmering worries about underwriting standards in the adjacent private-credit space.

From MarketWatch • May 9, 2026

But he lets Magaro’s simmering fragility be a real presence: the sputtering glow of someone afraid to be the protagonist of his own story.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

While it is obviously premature to declare the Iran war over, we can now better assess the economic damage, particularly with oil prices simmering down notably.

From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026

“It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that it wasn’t genius, but something far more common.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott