foment

If he somehow finds a miraculous recharge for his ring, he will use his superpower to foment further revenge and retribution.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

Never has the U.S. managed to foment regime change from the air alone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

They can inflame internal and external tensions and foment uncertainty.

From Barron's ● Mar. 7, 2026

Those contests, like many others, involved months of trash-talking on both sides, and often foment internal warfare.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025

Also, some growers’ associations, threatened by the return of interned farmers, had been using the war as a way to foment hostile feelings in the major farming areas.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

The text of the newly proposed Bill C-34 lists seven categories of "harmful content", which includes material bullying a child, or that foments hatred, or incites violence.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

Chris Evans, Captain America himself, stars as the leader of the underclass, who foments a revolution that results in disturbing revelations about those around them.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

There, sharing a theatre stage with a dozen other religious representatives, he urged all religions to live in harmony and shun ideological fundamentalism that foments violence.

From Reuters ● Sep. 3, 2023

In practice, the movement spreads falsehoods and foments conspiracy theories about evolution.

From Scientific American ● May 12, 2023

Many newspaper writers, through ignorance, have condemned the existence of a scrap committee at West Point, claiming that it foments fights.

From Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

The paranoia and fear fomented by the sweeping immigration crackdown in the Midwestern state has led many migrants -- both those with legal status and those without -- to shelter at home, campaigners say.

From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026

Ms. Nadell is convincing that anti-Israel movements have fomented antisemitism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025

The horrific images that have emerged from the area during these hellish recent months have fomented a sea change in the dialogue around it.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2025

Sure, there’s the existential dread fomented by these trying times that makes contemplating the present and future near impossible on most days that end with "y."

From Salon ● May 27, 2024

Lander’s rhetoric inflamed passions; he fomented rebellion; he was too uppity to allow to run free.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

The company’s rise, the Journal wrote, was “undermining the whole real-estate brokerage system,” squeezing out some competitors while fomenting a “sudden explosion” of imitators.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

However, the ill-feeling has been fomenting for much longer.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

The sheer reach of the Cyclospora parasite indicates other contributors at play, and despite expert recommendations to the contrary, it’s already fomenting a mild panic over produce.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

"It should now be clear to everyone throughout the region that decades of fomenting terrorism and extremism, jihadism and antisemitism have not worked. They haven't worked. They've been a disaster."

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025

Mom is fomenting her own brand of anarchy closer to home.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García