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trickle

[trik-uhl] / ˈtrɪk əl /


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For the day ahead, investors will watch the final results trickle in and listen closely to Democrats for clues to their policy priorities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

But that number appears set to rise once the final results from a few dozen uncalled races trickle in.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

A tsunami, a trickle — or something in the middle?

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026

Now in 2026, several men wearing all black with red ties, like Way does in the music video directed by Marc Webb, trickle in as soon as the doors open.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

The creek it crossed was only a reedy trickle, narrow enough to step across, so I decided to go that way.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

“Leadership starts up here, but that leadership trickles down to the troops on the ground,” Rodriguez said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Now, the lack of rain is reducing some stretches of the Danube and Rhine to mere trickles, threatening industry that has long relied on the mighty waterways.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

That has driven worries of rising inflation, as the cost of fuel trickles down to consumers through virtually every industry.

From MarketWatch ● May 17, 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

And then the buses pull away, and the flow trickles down to a few stragglers.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements

But few of the benefits of that wealth had trickled down to the people who produced it.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

While some third-quarter results trickled in last week, 79 companies in the S&P 500 are due to report in the week ahead as the pace ramps up.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 2026

The fears this week trickled through far-reaching corners of the market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Students trickled into some schools despite ongoing protests outside their gates, ahead of a day of larger demonstrations expected on Tuesday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Once it started drizzling, Roz carefully washed herself from head to toe, and by the time the clouds passed, every speck of poison tide had rinsed off her body and trickled into the ocean.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

The truth is that we won’t really know much until tabulated returns start trickling in.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

The shuttle-run bonanza is trickling down to individual sailors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

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

Yet it’s hard to see the spoils of an AI-driven economy trickling down to everyone.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

I sit down on a bench, gazing around at all the trees and plants, a stone fountain trickling softly behind me.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott


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