percolate

Example Sentences

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

From MarketWatch • Feb. 11, 2026

As their attitudes percolate down, we could see job security supplant prices in the public’s hierarchy of anxiety.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

McCurry’s team is working to learn more about whether the metals in retardant percolate into groundwater or run off into streams and rivers.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2024

“That will alleviate a lot of problems instead of having things percolate and blow up in your face.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2024

As Singleton began to amass evidence, and Baird saw that a potential case was coalescing, he let these thoughts percolate.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel