yeast

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Recent Examples of yeast Think of it like a recipe for making bread, which requires yeast and flour. Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2025 Whole cluster pressed and fermented with native yeast, this succulent rose brims with bright fresh strawberry and watermelon notes. Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025 Motif FoodWorks, a company that was using yeast to produce a meaty-tasting protein called Hemami, went out of business the same year. Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 23 June 2025 By feeding it urea extracted from human urine, the yeast initiates a biochemical chain reaction that results in the secretion of crystalline hydroxyapatite, just like osteoblasts do. Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for yeast
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Noun
  • Advertisement While there has never been a federal mandate to buy electric vehicles, Trump’s bill does eliminate federal tax incentives for electric-vehicle owners, which is expected to hurt Musk’s company Tesla.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 7 July 2025
  • While these efforts have generally failed to boost birth rates, one notable exception is the Hubei province city of Tianmen, where incentives were followed by a notable surge in births last year.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • But another member of the Southeastern Connecticut delegation who served as the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Aundre Bumgardner, D-Groton, said that the Plainfield proposal had been the primary impetus for the bill.
    Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 9 July 2025
  • Still, Streeter suggested that further pressure from the U.K. regulator could provide the impetus required to accelerate changes within the company.
    Karen Gilchrist, CNBC, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • Jason Bateman even offered Shepard some encouragement to lock it down.
    Rachel Flynn, People.com, 12 July 2025
  • By July, a garden in full bloom may need some encouragement to keep its beautiful flowers in supply.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Chinese markets were sharply higher in earlier trading, buoyed by signs of possible additional stimulus measures in China and Goldman Sachs Group’s upgrade of Hong Kong stocks to market-weight.
    Teresa Cerojano, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2025
  • Using a tool to measure how patients perceive stimuli like temperature and touch, researchers in Germany found that women with lipedema had a lower pain threshold compared with other women.
    Francesca Gilbard, NBC news, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Being direct with people earns their respect faster than any lecture about motivation.
    Marek Niedzwiedz, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • Numerous questions remain about the shooting, including Crooks’ motivation.
    Boston Herald Wire Services, Boston Herald, 13 July 2025

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“Yeast.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yeast. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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