ferment
Example Sentences
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It is still unknown whether chimpanzees deliberately choose fruits with higher ethanol levels, which tend to be riper and richer in sugar that can ferment.
From Science Daily
The theater’s importance as a locus of intelligent inquiry and intellectual ferment—not momentous, alas—owes a great debt to his influence.
Many people turn to fermented drinks like kombucha which promises to boost the microbiome and, by extension, the immune system.
From BBC
Spinning and consuming fermented fruit both relate to larger questions about how animals amuse themselves and what their pastimes might say about the experience of being a gorilla or chimp.
From Scientific American
By this, Steinbach meant that Duncan should consider whether his appearance at Stanford was worth the obvious rancor and ferment it had created.
From Washington Post
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