ferment
Example Sentences
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When they ferment sugars, they create tiny outward flowing currents across the wet surface.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
Most modern artists, famously Picasso, left their home turf for some center of creative ferment, finding their voices there.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2025
Does the party have the means to ferment a counterculture that is agile, tech-savvy, and fashionable?
From Slate • Jun. 12, 2025
The staging transitions in dreamlike fashion from the hospital to Pondicherry, India, where Pi grew up in a happy, hectic ferment of adolescence.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025
Back in 1972 Crosby invented a term for this biological ferment: the Columbian Exchange.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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