trickle
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As he watched in-the-know travelers trickle in, he noticed something missing: a chic place for them to stay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
“This is a way to invest very little money in a lot of different productions and hope for some big wins from those productions that can trickle up.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
"The benefits of AI have to trickle down to people," he says.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The power cuts have made normal life almost impossible, with each outage also meaning that water supplies trickle away and ceiling fans slow to a halt.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
From somewhere ahead Matthias could hear the trickle and gurgle of a stream.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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“And that trickles down to these interview subjects seeing the increased quality and going, ‘I like the way these things look.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
This money trickles through the economy, and some of it ends up adding to the earnings of big, traded companies.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
All this sincerity trickles down to the performances, too.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026
And so you have to have a leader that is a true believer, so that sort of mentality trickles down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
Water trickles from several fountains along these walls.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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A handful of day-trippers trickled aboard the boat in hiking boots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
“Let’s stop all the discrimination against street vendors... Enough!” she said in Spanish while tears trickled down her face outside City Hall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
Volunteers served warm meals and donations from local residents trickled in.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
The rising costs of energy have trickled down to nearly every part of the economy, from gas prices to shipping costs, and rising inflation fears have pushed long-term U.S. bonds yields to multi-decade highs.
From MarketWatch ● May 24, 2026
Sweat trickled down the back of my neck.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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The bubbly 28-year-old sits on the porch of a bungalow at the temple complex and says hello to the other women, who start trickling into the room.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
But water was trickling through holes in the heavily damaged roof.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
“Some of the funds that the Kim regime made through selling weapons and hacking are trickling down to the residents,” said Lee, who heads a data-research center owned by DailyNK, an online publication.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
Additional conditions allow for shares to keep trickling out into the market ahead of the six-month expiration date.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
A scatter of droplets beaded on the bruise, trickling down to gather in the hollow of his neck.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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