simmering

Example Sentences

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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

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

Fears about a shortage of naphtha - a petrochemical produced from crude oil and a key raw ingredient in plastics - are also simmering in Japan.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

The simmering resentment against the planter class created conditions that were ripe for revolt.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander