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Analysts expect few breakthroughs as trade tensions simmer.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Analysts expect the current cycle to simmer during Micron’s fiscal 2028, which ends in August 2028.

From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026

Let them simmer for 2–3 minutes, until softened.

From Salon ● May 19, 2026

The summit projected an air of friendship between the world’s two most powerful nations, even as tensions simmer over trade, technology and geopolitical influence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

She knew how to coax milk and gather eggs and bake bread and fashion inventions and build contraptions and grow plants and press cheese and simmer a stew to nourish the mind and the soul.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

Outside the courtroom, a broader conversation simmers on social media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

James finds the gas on in the kitchen, although Lou insists she turned it off, and tension simmers between them when James suggests that maybe she forgot because of her medication.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Chandler flexes the charisma that made his “Friday Night Lights” father figure Coach Taylor such an indelible figure, while Pierre’s buttoned-down smolder slowly simmers the tension between them.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

As the conflict between the U.S. and Iran simmers, investors and consumers are wondering what to expect for oil and fuel prices.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 24, 2026

There is high laughter that simmers down slowly.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

Since 2004, a low-level conflict has simmered in the southernmost provinces of Buddhist-majority Thailand, as rebels in the Muslim-majority region battle for greater autonomy.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

Peeled russet potatoes, lettuce and three cups of water are then thrown into the mix, boiled and, finally, simmered.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026

Oil prices rose as Middle East tensions simmered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

Meaning: Do you want your dish smothered in sauce made from roasted green chiles, or a simmered counterpart fashioned from dried red chile pods?

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

They swung the cauldron on the fire’s heart, poured water in, and fed the blaze beneath until the basin simmered, cupped in flame.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

I frosted the cake with a Swiss meringue buttercream that required bringing egg whites and sugar together over a pot of simmering water and then whisking it into stiff peaks.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Burnt-sienna vines twist through simmering ocher air, while flora sprout through these roiling masses in hues of chromium oxide and cadmium green.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

His father was killed at the bitter end of the war, fighting for Marshal Tito, the leader who managed to knit together the multi-ethnic state of Yugoslavia and suppress simmering enmities.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

But the growing outrage has inevitably become a flashpoint amid broader, simmering grievances felt by Vietnam's youth.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

Matty did so, going to the woodstove, where the iron kettle was already simmering.

From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry