stir
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Mr. Hegseth didn’t say that his Fortress America would include nuclear power, and maybe that’s why it didn’t cause a stir.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 9, 2026
The sudden influx of Bogong moths along Australia's east coast has caused a stir in cities like Sydney and Canberra, with people filming them infiltrating their homes and cars.
From BBC β Oct. 1, 2026
I can’t tell you how many conversations I’ve had where someone says, “Even mentioning this can stir up fear and doubt.”
From Slate β Sep. 23, 2026
Twelve months ago, both actors were anonymous Gen Z-ers who could have easily popped into Tim Hortons for a maple-glazed donut without causing a stir.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 13, 2026
Her eyelids flutter closed and the rose petals around their feet begin to stir.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
“Crude oil and energy is ‘the straw that stirs the drink’ of the current global macro risk regime,” said Charlie McElligott, cross-asset macro strategist at Nomura Securities International.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 15, 2026
There, it stirs the surrounding hot gas, which gives off X-rays.
From Science Daily β Sep. 15, 2026
As Koschei the Deathless stirs from millennia-long captivity, powerful allies close in to reclaim the human lands.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 18, 2026
A pair of heartwarming World Cup reflections: Soccer stirs up all sorts of emotions for fans.
From Slate β Jul. 10, 2026
When it is my turn to receive the food, I watch anxiously as the cook stirs the rice soup.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
The Bay Area librarian-turned-social media star stirred concern online this summer after a series of posts in which he discussed his declining mental health.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 14, 2026
Then Ryan Christie scored and it stirred, only to fall into a slumber again.
From BBC β Oct. 6, 2026
"It's really taken off like wildfire," he said as a batch of powder was slowly stirred into gelato, turning it a bright purple.
From Barron's β Oct. 6, 2026
After World War I and its remaking of the global order, including the end of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires, anticolonial movements stirred across Asia.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 11, 2026
The banana leaves stirred up a breeze as Saleem pushed through them.
From "Rickshaw Girl" by Mitali Perkins
These protest-laden times couldn’t be more receptive to the stirring “Everybody to Kenmure Street,” which speaks to a moment when the machinery of institutional cruelty was ground to a halt by righteous neighborliness.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 2, 2026
By heating, stirring, and disrupting gas throughout the CGM, black hole jets can make it harder for that material to cool and fall back toward the galaxy.
From Science Daily β Sep. 30, 2026
Painful, for sure, but a prelude to a stirring second half from the striker and his new-old team-mates.
From BBC β Sep. 27, 2026
The trouble with stirring up controversy, he admitted, is that it comes crashing down on your head if you underperform.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 6, 2026
This was their best shot at stirring the goddess into action.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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