percolate

Example Sentences

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Signs of stress continue to percolate as some private-credit funds mark down the value of their loans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

But other risks to stock-market stability continued to percolate.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 11, 2026

The plan called for reducing the size of three existing golf courses and opening wide corridors where the river and creeks would spread out in the floodplains and water would percolate into the ground.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2024

It’s only relatively recently that the importance of sleep to physical, mental and emotional health has started to percolate more in the general population, he said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2024

Now I’m sitting at the kitchen table with my sketchbook, a mallard’s feather, and a selection of my graphite pencils, letting what Dr. Crowchild said percolate.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam