- present participle of brew.
brewing
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SAN FRANCISCO—A backlash against Anthropic is brewing in Silicon Valley, rooted in concerns about the company’s product launches that compete with existing software providers and its advocacy for a closed AI ecosystem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Unfortunately, a broader conflict seems to be brewing.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
Scientists say a brewing "super" El Nino in the equatorial Pacific could also be influencing the heat dome.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
Erica Sandberg, a consumer advocate for Cardrates, said she can already see this sort of thing brewing in her own family.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Alyce was greatly relieved when enough soap was made to wash all the linen in England, and brewing could begin.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
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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
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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 Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn)
It is the poetry of beer; it is to all other brewings what Shakespeare is to the drama; what the Coliseum is to other antiquities.
From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various
He it was who procured for her the various ingredients she used in her magic brewings.
From A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hay, Marie, Hon. (Agnes Blanche Marie)
Your Brunswick Mumme," continued the page, "may pass as a refreshing drink; but with our beer you cannot compare it, for the best of our brewings is unknown to you.
From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various