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For some, it’s a last hurrah, the culmination of ideas that had been percolating for years.

The Missouri Democratic Party first declared its support for the move as the redistricting bill was percolating in the Missouri legislature.

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These opinions haven’t percolated through to the general public because business leaders are loath to express them in public, rather than anonymously.

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The possibility of Ohtani pitching in relief has been percolating for the last several weeks.

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Experts say that global warming means that rains are increasingly being reported in higher reaches where it mostly snowed in the past, destabilising mountains further with water percolating and loosening the ground.

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