as in to provoke
to bring (something volatile or intense) into being
John Adams's wife, Abigail, told him that if women were not remembered by the new American government, they would "foment a Rebellion and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice or Representation"
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In a short span, the Trump administration has already fomented multiple crises and the public has taken notice.
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William Lambers, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
But more crucially, the body is rendered as a consistently fraught site on which identity is fomented and complicated, turning Schimberg’s film into a slyly constructed and powerfully caustic doppelgänger tale.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025
His critics have accused him of fomenting anti-vaccine sentiment there, and putting children at risk by discouraging immunization.
—Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2025
The waiting was the point, to foment in the hot rooms a tangible pressure.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2025
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William Lambers, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
But more crucially, the body is rendered as a consistently fraught site on which identity is fomented and complicated, turning Schimberg’s film into a slyly constructed and powerfully caustic doppelgänger tale.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025
His critics have accused him of fomenting anti-vaccine sentiment there, and putting children at risk by discouraging immunization.
—Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2025
The waiting was the point, to foment in the hot rooms a tangible pressure.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for foment
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“Foment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foment. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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