percolate

I’m learning that regenerating sometimes is just being quiet and letting ideas percolate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

That focus will likely prove key if the current rotation deepens over the summer months as bond yields rise and inflation pressure percolate.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

“The broader impact of high global oil prices has yet to percolate through retail inflation as pump fuel prices remain unchanged,” DBS’s economics team said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

But other risks to stock-market stability continued to percolate.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 11, 2026

It goes some way toward explaining how confidential information, rumors, and jokes percolate so rapidly through a population.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

If there were a statewide measure for commercial businesses, many would probably have to build retention ponds or swales to filter out contaminants before water percolates underground.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

"It's very much a wait to see how the removal of the tariffs percolates through the supply chain," he added.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

“Liberation” percolates with lively humor, as when Lizzie introduces herself as a journalist who writes “obituaries and weddings—which in a way are the same thing.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2025

Many areas in the parched West already use treated wastewater for outdoor irrigation or to replenish underground aquifers, where water is further cleansed as it percolates through the soil.

From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2023

My heart percolates and my hands begin to sweat.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

To be fair, concerns about whether AI even has been a bubble have percolated for months.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

After the idea percolated up from Linda to Clay-and-Buck and then to Fox News, Trump thought it was a stroke of genius.

From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2026

The fight percolated predictably from there, rising in intensity, until Jessica Tarlov—the liberal punching bag on Fox’s The Five—broke things up.

From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2025

News of the possible sale had percolated since last year, as Starbucks’ business in China faltered.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2025

I could smell his coffee, and even though it didn’t smell as good as Mrs. Windermere’s—which she percolated before I came—it still smelled pretty good.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

"We're not the only jurisdiction that's facing that ageing-related crisis, because similar issues are percolating in Australia and England," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

“It was kind of like I had to access what was percolating because part of me was looking at the world and feeling a little shut down, as anyone would be,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Even in the film’s most convoluted moments, there’s a fire of dissent percolating just beneath its surface.

From Salon ● May 22, 2026

Dept. of the Treasury, is percolating in the Sixth Circuit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

No matter how wet and cold you are, black coffee percolating will get you through it.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt