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  • present participle of brew.
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brewing

[broo-ing] / ˈbru ɪŋ /






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Moore used to opine on national issues and occasionally tried to get in front of brewing controversies, Rose said, but he was also willing to hear out concerns about the treatment of journalists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Plenty of people are brewing themed cocktails to celebrate Halloween, but too often these drinks wind up as tricks instead of treats.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026

An electric-power crunch is brewing thanks to the AI buildout, and a few companies, mostly in the energy and energy-infrastructure space, are slated to benefit from it.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

The changes have been brewing for the past year but kicked into gear last month when Pulte directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to approve all lenders to use VantageScore 4.0.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

He stomped around, brewing up tea in his enormous copper kettle, muttering all the while.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

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

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

She had already the woman's trick of washing her hair in the young birch brewings.

From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Neil Munro

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 Hon. Agnes Blanche Marie Hay

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


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