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brewing

[broo-ing] / ˈbru ɪŋ /






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Currently, the company offers a one-hour total body scan that uses its proprietary technology to screen for brewing problems in the blood, skin, and metabolism.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

This step is what brought us here, to Ponysaurus, filling out the online notice to the tune of a hissing compressor that kept clean air moving through the brewing system.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

President Trump kicked off a summit with China’s Xi Jinping with an extravagant welcome ceremony, as Washington and Beijing look to ease brewing tensions over the war in Iran, artificial intelligence and trade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

But this breakdown of business as usual in Germany has been brewing for years.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Looking back now, I wonder how it came to pass that not until that fateful day did we realise the trouble that had been brewing.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

So what more natural than they would one day talk over endless coffeepots into innumerable midnights, and out of all the talk and the bitter brewings would come—the House of Usher.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

The good women being now supplied with yeast from each other's brewings, would have baked, but two difficulties still remained.

From The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales by Hannah More

This being so, the chief manufacture of the year is carried on in the month of September, the September string-makings being analogous to October brewings.

From The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators by George Hart

She came with a bad character enough, accused of bewitching men to their death, spoiling brewings and churnings, and hurting cattle and corn—of being, in fact, a terrible pest to the whole neighbourhood.

From Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

Apothecaries are filthy distillers all the world over, and one never knows the real blessing of health till one has escaped from their beastly brewings.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Charles James Lever




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