trickle
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Only now, when private companies have been harder to sell and the distributions from these funds have slowed to a trickle, have fiduciaries started to realize that their expected return assumptions may be too optimistic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
“It’s a trickle effect down. If there are no homes being built, nobody gets paid and in turn no one goes to spend money at local groceries, at mom-and-pop shops, and so forth.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
But Rohith said the economic benefits would not necessarily trickle down from the warehouse-like facilities.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
US forces have seemingly been able to facilitate a sufficient trickle through the Strait of Hormuz in recent days to avert an oil-price shock or a global economic collapse.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
There was a tiny trickle of smoke drifting up from the chimney, which I could hardly see against the grey sky.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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The price increase trickles down to all goods sold across the economy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Even the booming river category, a more premium segment, looks soft as mighty waterways turned into trickles this summer in Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
That has driven worries of rising inflation, as the cost of fuel trickles down to consumers through virtually every industry.
From MarketWatch ● May 17, 2026
This money trickles through the economy, and some of it ends up adding to the earnings of big, traded companies.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
As the water trickles out of the rusty tap, I imagine I'm standing near a wide river, like in a poem my teacher read to us about rivers singing.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
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While some third-quarter results trickled in last week, 79 companies in the S&P 500 are due to report in the week ahead as the pace ramps up.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 2026
Updates about the search for survivors have trickled out slowly, while the death toll has remained unchanged since late Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
That White House staffers apparently felt comfortable anonymously attacking Holmes in personal terms suggests that the impulse has trickled down too.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
The crowd, which leaned younger in part because the event allowed attendees 18 and older, trickled in around 7 p.m., and by 9 p.m., the party was in full swing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
A peat fire burned smokily in the large fireplace against one wall, and the smoke trickled out of the chimney far above.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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Auen and Walker delight in trickling real historical information — the result of painstaking research they both conducted studying the Chronovisor — through the film at a slow but steady, always compelling pace.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
Details are still trickling out, but here’s what we know.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
The money starts compounding immediately instead of trickling in over the five years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Yet it’s hard to see the spoils of an AI-driven economy trickling down to everyone.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
She watered her garden with bamboo pipes trickling coolly from the pool.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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