- present participle of brew.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of brewing
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at brew, -ing 1
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While surveys suggest people in China are generally more optimistic about AI than in other countries, anxiety about the technology is brewing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
That one extra hit — not only getting something brewing, but following through, manufacturing a second run with a sacrifice bunt and a timely single — was the difference.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
It is not the first big brewing firm to move operations in the West Midlands.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Currently, the company offers a one-hour total body scan that uses its proprietary technology to screen for brewing problems in the blood, skin, and metabolism.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
Yet the mood of the local villagers was not unlike that of the Russian peasantry, for a revolution of sorts was brewing among them.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
So what more natural than they would one day talk over endless coffeepots into innumerable midnights, and out of all the talk and the bitter brewings would come—the House of Usher.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
In Louisville the brewings of Messrs. M. & G. are highly valued by all.
From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Ben Casseday
Apothecaries are filthy distillers all the world over, and one never knows the real blessing of health till one has escaped from their beastly brewings.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Charles James Lever
It is the poetry of beer; it is to all other brewings what Shakespeare is to the drama; what the Coliseum is to other antiquities.
From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various
The good women being now supplied with yeast from each other's brewings, would have baked, but two difficulties still remained.
From The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales by Hannah More
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