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be stirred up



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Among other things, the silt at the bottom of the deep sea, which will be stirred up when extracting manganese nodules, for example, is a major concern.

From Science Daily May 15, 2024

The wontons have a delicate wrapper cocooning an amalgam of fatty pork and snappy shrimp, just begging to be stirred up in their bowl of sauce.

From Seattle Times Oct. 27, 2022

Many emotions can be stirred up by this process; “anxiety and even shame are common”, she says.

From The Guardian May 18, 2019

By the spring of 2015, Seitz feared that the longer they deliberated, the more bad blood would be stirred up.

From New York Times Jul. 19, 2018

But did they ask, perchance more of them might be stirred up to set out along it.

From The Scottish Fairy Book by Elizabeth Wilson Grierson




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