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The essays were exciting because she put a label on a debate that had been stewing for a long time.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2017

It had been stewing a long time�since 1914 when the Esch-Cummins Act went into effect.

From Time Magazine Archive

For days Newt Gingrich had been stewing over how to make his best and final offer to Clinton.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last spring, he wrote Death of a Salesman in a six-week spurt; it had been stewing in his head for ten years.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Ah, my dear," groaned Mrs. Cross, pouring out a cupful of the inky-looking fluid that had been stewing on the hob for the last hour and a-half.

From North, South and over the Sea by Francis, M.E. (Mrs. Francis Blundell)