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are stirring

  • present progressive
    of stir.
    stir
    verb (used with object)
    to move one's hand or an implement continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts.

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I wonder how many people in this room are stirring the forces that will be ash in someone’s ice core 1,500 years from now.

From Slate ● May 8, 2026

AI bears are stirring after a three-year slumber.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026

Rumors are stirring that author Meryl Wilsner’s sports romance novel, “Cleat Cute,” will be adapted for TV.

From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2026

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser warned "extremists and populists are stirring up a climate of increasing violence".

From BBC ● May 4, 2024

“Things are stirring that I have not hunted in millennia,” Artemis murmured.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan