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verb

past tense of ferment

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fermented
Adjective
  • His screenplay had ended with Aimée’s widowed script girl returning to Paris from Deauville after a tryst gone sour with Trintignant’s widowed racecar driver.
    Bruce Handy, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Keeping score Healthy relationships can quickly turn sour when couples start tallying up each other’s good deeds and missteps.
    Jourdan Travers, CNBC, 27 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The incident was caught on video, making waves online and on local TV news, and provoked an outcry from fellow residents.
    Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 3 Jan. 2025
  • His 1954 run for governor in Connecticut provoked questions about whether the state was ready for a Jewish governor.
    Arthur House, Hartford Courant, 30 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Davis was hardly the first to succumb to the lure of the corpse flower (not to be confused with Amorphophallus titanum, which has a giant phallic protrusion and also happens to smell like rancid meat and bear the nickname corpse flower).
    Hillary Rosner, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2013
  • This research extends to the effects of pH and cooking temperature on meaty and species flavor, sweetness, barnyard, and rancid flavor in sheep-meat.
    ncbi rofl, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2010
Verb
  • His son, Kenneth, moved meat packing plants to where his cattle were raised and saw profits soar.
    Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The 2024 tiger sighting was attributed to conservation efforts and has raised hopes that the predator could return to Kui Buri National Park, officials said.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Vogue Ukraine has always supported and promoted young national talents.
    PhotoVogue, Vogue, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Pippen was promoted from his two-way deal to a roster contract and has played every game for a team with the second-best record in the West.
    Eric Koreen, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, the Grizzlies struggled with a team 34.4% shooting percentage, including a putrid 6-of-34 from 3-point territory.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Even at the end of a putrid season last December, Soldier Field was still pretty packed for the post-Christmas snoozefest against the Seattle Seahawks.
    Jon Greenberg, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • It’s spread when chickens come into contact with infected birds or through contaminated water, feed and equipment.
    Pete & Gerry's Contributor, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • For decades there has been concern that CWD could move into human populations through the ingestion of contaminated meat.
    Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • In the street in front of his house, Cooper — the homeowner with the tainted water — met Wilson studying a flare through her camera.
    Saul Elbein, The Hill, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The man widely called the true winner of Venezuela’s tainted presidential election said on Tuesday that his son-in-law had been kidnapped by hooded men in Caracas, the capital.
    Genevieve Glatsky, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Fermented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fermented. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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