percolate
Example Sentences
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“We expect the impact of higher energy prices to gradually percolate in the coming months as replacement supplies arrive with a lag.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
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
“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
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
Vocabulary lists containing percolate
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