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percolate

[pur-kuh-leyt, pur-kuh-lit, -leyt] / ˈpɜr kəˌleɪt, ˈpɜr kə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /


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“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

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

Production designer Craig Lathrop didn’t have a script at the time of that initial conversation, but ideas inspired by that romantic and gothic era began to percolate.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2025

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




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