percolate

Example Sentences

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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

Around the same time, an idea began to percolate.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2025

“That will alleviate a lot of problems instead of having things percolate and blow up in your face.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2024

Reporters from far-flung cities wired the same observation back to their editors, and stories of delight and awe began to percolate through the most remote towns.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson