simmer
Example Sentences
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With viewers set to find out if the pair's simmering forbidden love can conquer all, Australian actress Yerin Ha, who plays Sophie, tells Newsbeat that representing her community is all she's "ever wanted".
From BBC
The earlier disaster may have helped douse a decades-long conflict between Aceh's separatists and the Indonesian government, but a simmering mistrust of Jakarta lingers.
From Barron's
A presumption that there is an undercurrent of simmering rage in day-to-day life has taken hold in ways that might have startled past generations.
“I’ll bring everything to a boil and let that simmer until the short ribs are tender,” he says.
From Salon
“With the AI debate still simmering on displacement concerns, we felt the abundance of AI use cases now in production particularly relevant,” Susquehanna analyst James Friedman wrote in a research note.
From Barron's
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