- present participle of stir.
stirring
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"It'd all go to waste otherwise," he told AFP, while stirring a metre-radius metal pan perched atop a gas burner filled with ratatouille.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Dahlia Lithwick’s stirring opening essay is definitely worth a read.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026
Parallel to Byrd’s stirring public advocacy is a crucial personal thread: her nurturing of Shelly, whose progressing dementia requires regular supervision.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026
He concludes with the stirring lines: “She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Wagons and carriages rumbled down the streets, stirring up clouds of flies from the manure left to broil in the July sun.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
And everywhere the ambient stirrings of the 16-speaker Bang & Olufsen mega-audio with integrated noise canceling, featuring a “Quiet mode” that allows adults in front to talk without waking the kids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025
The first real stirrings of a proper red army in the land of the green and the gold.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
He left his role as CEO of WWE in 2022 when the first stirrings of those accusations began to circulate.
From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2024
For Americans aware of Europe’s fascist stirrings, the Welles/Wells invasion hit home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2023
There was, for instance, a scarcity of hope on Middlesex, where his wife no longer felt any stirrings in her spiritual umbilicus.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
