ferment
Example Sentences
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North Africa was by then the Bible Belt of the late Roman West, characterized by intense Christian devotion and intellectual ferment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
Most modern artists, famously Picasso, left their home turf for some center of creative ferment, finding their voices there.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2025
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 • Dec. 1, 2025
An inquiring fan might want to go to Will Hermes’ 2011 book “Love Goes to Buildings on Fire” for a more nuanced and knowledgeable portrait of the creative ferment that made the Heads possible.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2025
Focusing on the Olmec’s chronological primacy, they believe, obscures the more important fact that Mesoamerica was the home of a remarkable multisociety ferment of social, aesthetic, and technical innovation.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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