- present participle of stir.
stirring
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These protest-laden times couldn’t be more receptive to the stirring “Everybody to Kenmure Street,” which speaks to a moment when the machinery of institutional cruelty was ground to a halt by righteous neighborliness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
By heating, stirring, and disrupting gas throughout the CGM, black hole jets can make it harder for that material to cool and fall back toward the galaxy.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Already the company's claim is stirring some controversy.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The trouble with stirring up controversy, he admitted, is that it comes crashing down on your head if you underperform.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Soon he was stirring a fragrant stew flavored with crow garlic and big, fleshy wood-mushrooms.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
And everywhere the ambient stirrings of the 16-speaker Bang & Olufsen mega-audio with integrated noise canceling, featuring a “Quiet mode” that allows adults in front to talk without waking the kids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025
The first real stirrings of a proper red army in the land of the green and the gold.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
He left his role as CEO of WWE in 2022 when the first stirrings of those accusations began to circulate.
From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2024
Despite the stirrings of discontent, the ruling party still enjoys considerable support.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
There was, for instance, a scarcity of hope on Middlesex, where his wife no longer felt any stirrings in her spiritual umbilicus.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
