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- verb Common misspelling of
foment .
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Examples
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When the world or at least the Arab world is using everything and everyone to forment unrest and revolution and perhaps the pallor of genocide to (on) a small nation surrounded on three sides by those same factions its almost impossible to be “competent”.
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It is interesting that the very people who forment the anger in the country, the Democrats, are the first ones wailing when the public reacts to their mischief.
The Obama Diaries Laura Ingraham 2010
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The CSPOG contributed to the drafting of the original bill and lobbied against the proposed amendment as debate in parliament began to forment.
Clair MacDougall: Civil Society Groups Claim Ghana's Amendments to Oil Revenue Bill Could Lead to a 'Spending Spree' Clair MacDougall 2010
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Canadian banks use their Human Resources departments to spy upon foreign governments, forment unrest and sedition overseas, and capitalize munitions manufacturing.
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The CSPOG contributed to the drafting of the original bill and lobbied against the proposed amendment as debate in parliament began to forment.
Clair MacDougall: Civil Society Groups Claim Ghana's Amendments to Oil Revenue Bill Could Lead to a 'Spending Spree' Clair MacDougall 2010
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Tous ces diapasons différens réunis forment une étendue générale d'à-peu-près trois octaves qu'on a divisées en quatre parties, dont trois appellées haute-contre, taille & basse appartiennent aux voix masculines, & la quatrieme seulement qu'on appelle dessus est assignée aux voix aiguës, sur quoi se trouvent plusieurs remarques à faire.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: champion of among other things, mezzos! Celeste Winant 2008
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It is interesting that the very people who forment the anger in the country, the Democrats, are the first ones wailing when the public reacts to their mischief.
The Obama Diaries Laura Ingraham 2010
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When the world or at least the Arab world is using everything and everyone to forment unrest and revolution and perhaps the pallor of genocide toon a small nation surrounded on three sides by those same factions its almost impossible to be “competent”.
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It is interesting that the very people who forment the anger in the country, the Democrats, are the first ones wailing when the public reacts to their mischief.
The Obama Diaries Laura Ingraham 2010
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The CSPOG contributed to the drafting of the original bill and lobbied against the proposed amendment as debate in parliament began to forment.
Clair MacDougall: Civil Society Groups Claim Ghana's Amendments to Oil Revenue Bill Could Lead to a 'Spending Spree' Clair MacDougall 2010
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