trickle
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However, these releases slowed to a trickle in April after Rodriguez said the scheme was "coming to an end".
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Yosemite Falls is dry and Vernal, Nevada and Bridalveil falls are usually down to a trickle in September.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Yet when it comes to the ways AI is filtering into Americans’ jobs, many workers are looking at a trickle so far, rather than a flood.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Overall, earnings at the U.A.E. producer of natural gas tumbled after shipping through the vital Strait of Hormuz slowed to a trickle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The flood of inquiries would slow to a trickle.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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Their influence trickles down to fans in other ways.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Oil prices would likely need to remain lower for a longer stretch of time before it trickles down to retail prices, which tend to fall much more slowly than they rise.
From Barron's ● Apr. 8, 2026
All this sincerity trickles down to the performances, too.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026
And so you have to have a leader that is a true believer, so that sort of mentality trickles down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
In trickles, in rivulets, and finally in floods the water poured off the land into the streams.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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Details about what’s in the new trade deal have trickled out.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
That White House staffers apparently felt comfortable anonymously attacking Holmes in personal terms suggests that the impulse has trickled down too.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
The crowd, which leaned younger in part because the event allowed attendees 18 and older, trickled in around 7 p.m., and by 9 p.m., the party was in full swing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Residents trickled in, bringing pets and helping the elderly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
As the results trickled in from different states in December, Adams threw several tantrums that required Abigail to nurse him back to composure.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Auen and Walker delight in trickling real historical information — the result of painstaking research they both conducted studying the Chronovisor — through the film at a slow but steady, always compelling pace.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
Details are still trickling out, but here’s what we know.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
The money starts compounding immediately instead of trickling in over the five years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The bubbly 28-year-old sits on the porch of a bungalow at the temple complex and says hello to the other women, who start trickling into the room.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
“It’s the jumbo, three-hour size,” he said as the sand started trickling down.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
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