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
Those items are a far cry from the ancient Japanese dish of fermented fish that, over the centuries, morphed into nigiri, typically a piece of raw seafood draped over an oval of rice.
From Los Angeles Times
When fermenting a food, we intentionally contaminate it with microbes of known characteristics or provide conditions that favor the growth of desirable microbes and subsequent production of aromatic compounds.
From Salon
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