brewing
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But this week’s turn of events had been brewing over the course of a two-month internal saga that finally erupted when Moore’s behavior suddenly burst into view.
But broadening the funding channels for lending also increases the risk that if there was trouble brewing in the future, investors might not spot it as readily.
The plans for next summer’s World Cup had been brewing for nearly a decade by the time Gianni Infantino, the president of soccer’s world governing body, stepped into the Oval Office last month.
He aims, first, to explain why neither the shah nor his supporters in the U.S. government saw revolution brewing.
"There had been a conspiracy brewing for a long time to weaken Bangladesh's forces," Rahman said.
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