fomentin a sentence
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The article accused the politician of trying to foment division.foment = stir up or encourage
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She was accused of fomenting violence.fomenting = stirring up (encouraging)
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This racism, and the hatred and fear it fomented, surely served as an accelerant for abuse of Allied prisoners. (source)fomented = stirred up
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Suddenly the Communists found themselves in the extraordinary—critics said absurd—position of having to govern a people and foment revolution simultaneously. (source)foment = encourage or stir up
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Partly because the military was fighting three different wars of conquest at the same time, and high taxes fomented rebellion in lands already inside the empire. (source)fomented = stirred up
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To distract the public from his misrule, he fomented ethnic rivalries and supported guerrilla movements in neighboring countries that killed countless civilians. (source)
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation. (source)foment = stir up
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Richmond was a proud city and perhaps more distinctly American than even Washington, D.C. It could even be said that the United States of America was born in Richmond, for it was there, in 1775, in Richmond's St. John's Episcopal Church, that Patrick Henry looked out on a congregation that included George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and delivered the famous "Give me liberty or give me death" speech, which fomented American rebellion, the Revolutionary War, and independence itself.† (source)
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They were speaking treason, fomenting war ...† (source)
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It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.† (source)
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Mrs. Guppy, whose incessant smiling gave her quite a waggish appearance, did as her son requested and then sat down in a corner, holding her pocket handkerchief to her chest, like a fomentation, with both hands.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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"apologist for murder" and "fomenter of lawlessness."† (source)
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The whole of the previous night he had spent tossing about and groaning, and poor Nina Alexandrovna had been busy making cold compresses and warm fomentations and so on, without being very clear how to apply them.† (source)
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It seems a clear attempt to foment discord among Downworlders.† (source)
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In Poland they support the party that insists on an agrarian revolution as the prime condition for national emancipation, that party which fomented the insurrection of Cracow in 1846.† (source)
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Mom is fomenting her own brand of anarchy closer to home.† (source)
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