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Recent Examples of simmers
There’s a time and a place for a laborious chili recipe with upwards of 30 ingredients that simmers all day long.
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Josh Miller, Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2026
Black lives don’t matter in Warwick Thornton’s fiercely original outback Western Wolfram, a surprisingly emotional genre piece that simmers with menace and doesn’t let up until the bloody finale.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 17 Feb. 2026
Every interaction simmers with tension, but that deafening silence and psychological intensity is the heart of the series.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 3 Feb. 2026
In the new movie starring Denzel Washington, the camera rollicks, the edit clips at warp speed, and the sound mix explodes in Lee's coruscating New York — but the primordial ethical conflict at its heart simmers the same.
—Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Josh Miller, Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2026
Black lives don’t matter in Warwick Thornton’s fiercely original outback Western Wolfram, a surprisingly emotional genre piece that simmers with menace and doesn’t let up until the bloody finale.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 17 Feb. 2026
Every interaction simmers with tension, but that deafening silence and psychological intensity is the heart of the series.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 3 Feb. 2026
In the new movie starring Denzel Washington, the camera rollicks, the edit clips at warp speed, and the sound mix explodes in Lee's coruscating New York — but the primordial ethical conflict at its heart simmers the same.
—Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for simmers
boils
Verb
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The southern gothic The Heart, She Holler takes the convoluted elements of a soap opera — torrid affairs, small-town corruption, arbitrary plot twists — and boils them down alongside a heavy dose of gross-out surrealism to fit into 11-minute installments.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
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Bobbi boils with resentment and shame when Recife’s crooked police chief undermines his masculinity.—
Michael Snyder,
The Atlantic,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Simmers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/simmers. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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