- present participle of brew.
brewing
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An industrial nightmare was brewing south of Los Angeles.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
A turbulent start is brewing for stock markets, with technology set to drive a lower open after leaders of big artificial-intelligence companies said advances in AI should be slowed because of safety concerns.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Sales soared after Ontario Premier Doug Ford wore it to a meeting with then-prime minister Justin Trudeau and other officials to discuss the brewing trade war with the United States.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
The acrimony between the Overdecks, both 56, has been brewing for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
‘We feared that Saruman was brewing some new devilry for us.’
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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
She came with a bad character enough, accused of bewitching men to their death, spoiling brewings and churnings, and hurting cattle and corn—of being, in fact, a terrible pest to the whole neighbourhood.
From Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
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
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
In Louisville the brewings of Messrs. M. & G. are highly valued by all.
From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Ben Casseday
