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Trickling down, it’s the teenager, the budding pitching prospect desperate to land his Division I scholarship, who is hurt the most.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2025

Trickling back to work were 119,000 members of 16 unions that had idled the big Canadian Pacific and Canadian National rail roads, as well as five smaller lines.

From Time Magazine Archive

Trickling down to congregational level, ecumenism has notably relaxed sociological tension, created a national fad for visits to other people's churches.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sprinkle, sprinkle, comes the rain, Tapping on the window-pane; Trickling, coursing, Crowding, forcing Tiny rills To the dripping window-sills.

From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, V. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated by Dodge, Mary Mapes

Trickling down from the base of a low hill, it was circled by a grove of cottonwood and spruce trees.

From The Ranch Girls' Pot of Gold by Vandercook, Margaret



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