Example Sentences

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Percolating below, unseen, is the price you pay in time for success.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

Percolating concerns about employment have prompted him to re-examine what “normal” means in today’s labor market, he says.

From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025

Percolating rainfall weathers the deep bedrock over time, she explains, creating delicate fractures that fingerlike root offshoots can grow into to soak up pooled water when needed.

From Scientific American • Dec. 29, 2021

Percolating speculation at the time had the Oakland Raiders again uprooting, moving back to L.A. and squatting in the Rose Bowl or Coliseum while they worked on a long-term stadium solution.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2021

Percolating through the scratching was a clear, bell-like note.

From Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China by Hoskins, Gayle Porter