- present participle of stir.
stirring
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These protest-laden times couldn’t be more receptive to the stirring “Everybody to Kenmure Street,” which speaks to a moment when the machinery of institutional cruelty was ground to a halt by righteous neighborliness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
By heating, stirring, and disrupting gas throughout the CGM, black hole jets can make it harder for that material to cool and fall back toward the galaxy.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Painful, for sure, but a prelude to a stirring second half from the striker and his new-old team-mates.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
But it wasn’t until June, when I reported on how the technology is stirring fights in cities around the U.S., that I learned more about the reach and tactics of opposition groups like DeFlock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Strange smells—delicious smells—came from a pot that the long-furred Human was stirring.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
The Flock uprising, though, is the stirrings of public understanding that none of this inevitable — and we have the right to fight back.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
Celtic took care of Rangers on Sunday to set up the grandest finale, a round of fixtures on Wednesday and then the last stirrings on Saturday.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
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
Or you may think it is connected to the first stirrings of an embryo in the womb.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
I strained to listen, as if I might hear the whisperings and stirrings of the past.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
