fermenting

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It is a sugar alcohol typically made by fermenting corn and is now used in hundreds of food products.

From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2026

That meant that urine samples with high sugar content could have started fermenting and consequently generated alcohol that could have skewed the test result or created a false positive.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

While undergoing treatment, his mother became a fixture in the kitchen, helping on the line and tending to pots of fermenting kimchi.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

"These things are not coming out of nowhere. They are forces in American politics that have been underground for a while, but have been just kind of fermenting."

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2025

Jackson Street, though, smelled of rotting fish, cabbages and radishes fermenting in sea brine, sluggish sewers and diesel streetcar fumes.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson