- present participle of brew.
brewing
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But this breakdown of business as usual in Germany has been brewing for years.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
President Trump kicked off a summit with China’s Xi Jinping with an extravagant welcome ceremony, as Washington and Beijing look to ease brewing tensions over the war in Iran, artificial intelligence and trade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
It’s led to extreme weather events and the conditions brewing this summer in the Pacific are no exception.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Amazon and Shopify make starkly different moves in the brewing battle over AI shopping.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Rowdy must have known that a storm was brewing.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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
However, circumstances vary so much with different labourers, that as to the sort of beer, and the number of brewings, and the times of brewing, no general rule can be laid down.
From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by William Cobbett
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
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
I had just enough left for two brewings, so after drinking the tea I preserved the leaves for further use, wrapping them carefully in a bit of rag.
From The Lure of the Labrador Wild by Dillon Wallace
