percolation

Example Sentences

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After 40 years of reflection and percolation, some of the answers to those questions are visible on the other side of town, at the sprawling blockbuster show “Melbourne Now,” which opens today at the N.G.V.

From New York Times

Her debut album, “Yellow River Blue,” bounds between ambient, dub and house music, with propulsive percussion and synthesizers that generate gauzy textures and warm percolations, with a reverberating depth that feels three-dimensional.

From Washington Post

“This court ordinarily awaits percolation of legal issues in the lower courts before granting review and would benefit from such percolation here.”

From Washington Post

"The flows and percolation of waters through soils remarkably filters the waters, and the problems arise from flows over the surface and especially contamination from feces from cattle and other animals," Trenberth observed.

From Salon

They are connected to one another in a way that would seem to lend itself very well to percolation theory, which is precisely geared toward modeling the connections among discrete nodes.

From Scientific American