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trickle

[trik-uhl] / ˈtrɪk əl /


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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

“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

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

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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