percolate
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That focus will likely prove key if the current rotation deepens over the summer months as bond yields rise and inflation pressure percolate.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
But early in the year, core inflation excluding food and energy prices started to percolate, and the war with Iran has seemed to bring inflation to a boil.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
But other risks to stock-market stability continued to percolate.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 11, 2026
As their attitudes percolate down, we could see job security supplant prices in the public’s hierarchy of anxiety.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
It goes some way toward explaining how confidential information, rumors, and jokes percolate so rapidly through a population.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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"It's very much a wait to see how the removal of the tariffs percolates through the supply chain," he added.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
“Liberation” percolates with lively humor, as when Lizzie introduces herself as a journalist who writes “obituaries and weddings—which in a way are the same thing.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2025
This happens because carbon dioxide from the air dissolves in rainwater to form carbonic acid - this then percolates through the rock and reacts with it, causing it to dissolve.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025
The forested ridges catch rain, and water percolates into the canyon’s alluvial soil, where the trees’ roots tap into shallow groundwater.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
My heart percolates and my hands begin to sweat.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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The fight percolated predictably from there, rising in intensity, until Jessica Tarlov—the liberal punching bag on Fox’s The Five—broke things up.
From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2025
News of the possible sale had percolated since last year, as Starbucks’ business in China faltered.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2025
These opinions haven’t percolated through to the general public because business leaders are loath to express them in public, rather than anonymously.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025
In the decades since her pregnancy, the field of bipolar research and recommendations for treatment of pregnant and breastfeeding women have evolved, but experts say the information has not percolated through to all clinicians.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2024
As Linton was on his way to go talk to Daines, these things percolated.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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Even in the film’s most convoluted moments, there’s a fire of dissent percolating just beneath its surface.
From Salon ● May 22, 2026
Discussion about the need for a tradeable market for computing power has been percolating on Wall Street for months.
From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026
Its percolating low-end is one of the many great basslines on the record that engage the ear regardless of the setting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
The latest pullbacks have come with the stock market percolating along at historically generous valuations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
But always percolating and demanding his attention was Charles’s species book.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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