Examples of brew

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Even the fiscal crisis that had been brewing in the 1970s and had boiled over in the 1980s had apparently been resolved.
The row had been brewing for some time.
Significantly, men started brewing beer commercially for the first time.
I do my best not to let my turmoil show, the anger and hate that is brewing within me.
Flour for bread was ground mainly out of wheat and rye; beer was brewed from barley.
Typically, a host family brewed beer for the laborers who helped them plant or harvest their crops.
There were international movements and events that contributed to the situation of brewing unrest.
Women from particular districts where poverty and the social dislocation of migrant work intersected were more prone to using brewing to make ends meet.
A 'traditional' event for which beer is brewed, usually involving spirit possession. 15.
Not infrequently weavers, when the spirit moves them, quit their machines for the street, to sip a locally brewed cervecita, leaving their looms unattended.
However, my parents said they had long seen it brewing.
Nevertheless, the pilot brewery operated well below capacity ; its instant brew was not popular and patrons needed time to adjust to the strange taste.
Among ordinary people, a thicker cultural brew may be needed to sustain social solidarity and welcome newcomers into a democratic welfare state.
He sketches vivid portraits of its chief members in a satisfying brew of social and intellectual history.
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