- 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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The public ridicule remained ceaseless, but alleged tension was also brewing behind palace walls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Longer watchlists suggest more loan defaults could be brewing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
“The market is pricing in more uncertainty today that the rate of AI spending continues for several years,” Kerwin said, noting that there are fears brewing over memory overcapacity.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
Unfortunately, a broader conflict seems to be brewing.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
Massachusetts wasn’t the only colony where trouble was brewing.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
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
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
Your Brunswick Mumme," continued the page, "may pass as a refreshing drink; but with our beer you cannot compare it, for the best of our brewings is unknown to you.
From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various
And here is a tale of the crafty Ogs, In their neighbouring land of Podge; Of their sayings and doings and plottings and brewings, And something about Sir Stodge.
From The Glugs of Gosh by C. J. (Clarence James) Dennis
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