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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

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

“Black and white folks thought that … it was going to stir up stuff that didn’t need to be stirred up in America,” Coleman said.

From Washington Times • Apr. 21, 2018

The fermenting material in the house to be stirred up occasionally.

From In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year Showing the Most Successful Treatment for all Plants Cultivated in the Greenhouse, Conservatory, Stove, Pit, Orchid, and Forcing-house by Keane, William




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