percolate

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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

He’s not a monster, though monstrous thoughts percolate within him.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2025

County’s Hansen Spreading Grounds, where it will flow into basins and percolate into the groundwater aquifer for storage.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 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