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Recent Examples of simmer
However, the recent conflict largely ignited in April 2023, building on a simmering conflict, with many aid groups monitoring, and reporting upon, the situation for years.
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Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
At the same time, the present era is an epoch in which wars go on seemingly forever—now simmering, now boiling—without end.
—Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
On a recent episode of the Filmmaker Toolkit Podcast, DaCosta told IndieWire that continuing to play with the script wasn’t just about calibrating the levels of performance, repression, and passion simmering just beneath the characters’ exteriors.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 29 Oct. 2025
There seems to be simmering tension between Lenty and Jacobs, with both taking shots at each other in interviews and at the candidate forum.
—Idaho Statesman, 29 Oct. 2025
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Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
At the same time, the present era is an epoch in which wars go on seemingly forever—now simmering, now boiling—without end.
—Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
On a recent episode of the Filmmaker Toolkit Podcast, DaCosta told IndieWire that continuing to play with the script wasn’t just about calibrating the levels of performance, repression, and passion simmering just beneath the characters’ exteriors.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 29 Oct. 2025
There seems to be simmering tension between Lenty and Jacobs, with both taking shots at each other in interviews and at the candidate forum.
—Idaho Statesman, 29 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for simmer
boil
Verb
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As tensions boiled, clashes broke out and federal agents used pepper balls and tear gas, hitting journalists, a pastor and officers with the Chicago Police Department, according to reports and a lawsuit.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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They were created to store the sap collected from nearby maple trees and boil that down to create maple syrup.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Simmer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/simmer. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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