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Our task: to decide what to do with the juice that had been fermenting in oak barrels for several months.

From New York Times • May 7, 2015

The yeast of rebellion among young Hungarian intellectuals had been fermenting these past few months in a group called the Petofi Club.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since 1927, ideas on transoceanic flying had been fermenting in his agile mind, taking gradual shape on paper.

From Time Magazine Archive

A small dinner was to precede126 the dance, and all sorts of scheming for Georgiana's pleasure had been fermenting in Jeannette's brain on the way home.

From Under the Country Sky by Rogers, Frances

The idea, hinted at by Annie Broadside and Gladys Wilks in the morning, had been fermenting in Adah's brain all day, and she grasped at it eagerly.

From For the School Colours by Brazil, Angela