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Recent Examples of simmer
Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer for 15 minutes.
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Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
Lew’s closest friend, a Black man from South Central Los Angeles, quit the team in a dispute with coach John Wooden, and racial tensions simmered in the locker room the rest of the season.
—Jeff Chang
september 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
Jethwa is quietly powerful, Chandan’s vulnerability simmering beneath the surface, while Khatter’s Shoaib is ready to speak up and fight if anyone should dare provoke him (there are moments that flip this dynamic on its head with superb effect).
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 25 Sep. 2025
With affiliate resistance and political tensions still simmering, the show's future—and its distribution—remain uncertain.
—Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
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Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
Lew’s closest friend, a Black man from South Central Los Angeles, quit the team in a dispute with coach John Wooden, and racial tensions simmered in the locker room the rest of the season.
—Jeff Chang
september 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
Jethwa is quietly powerful, Chandan’s vulnerability simmering beneath the surface, while Khatter’s Shoaib is ready to speak up and fight if anyone should dare provoke him (there are moments that flip this dynamic on its head with superb effect).
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 25 Sep. 2025
With affiliate resistance and political tensions still simmering, the show's future—and its distribution—remain uncertain.
—Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for simmer
boil
Verb
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The recipe calls for the watery stalks to be boiled in meat broth and served chilled, accompanied with ketchup and anchovies.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
25 Sep. 2025
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In vacuum and one-sixth gravity, lubricants boil off, moving parts behave differently, and remote or autonomous operation is necessary because of the time delay between Earth and Moon, which makes real-time teleoperation impractical.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Simmer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/simmer. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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