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trickle

[trik-uhl] / ˈtrɪk əl /


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And when interest rates are stable, banks “can use that as an advantage, as an opportunity to trickle savings rates lower,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

That makes the trickle of inbound Americans a positive sign.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

As earnings reports from AI-adjacent companies continue to trickle in, the day’s most important financial news might come from a dull government bond auction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

"It started as a small trickle and over the weeks it has got bigger - they need to get their act together."

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

He barked and cut a path that led to a sandstone archway embedded into a stone wall facing a trickle of stream.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

Even the booming river category, a more premium segment, looks soft as mighty waterways turned into trickles this summer in Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Their influence trickles down to fans in other ways.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Wells Fargo recommends stocks in the tech, industrials and financial services sectors as spending on artificial intelligence trickles down into the rest of the economy.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 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

"I'm going to faint," Mouse Girl says as a stream of sweat trickles down the tip of her pointy nose.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

Updates about the search for survivors have trickled out slowly, while the death toll has remained unchanged since late Wednesday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

Details about what’s in the new trade deal have trickled out.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

That White House staffers apparently felt comfortable anonymously attacking Holmes in personal terms suggests that the impulse has trickled down too.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

Residents trickled in, bringing pets and helping the elderly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

There was something delicious in the sweat that trickled under her arms, in the surge of vigor that made her heart thump, in the odd-smelling mash that emerged after cooling.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Auen and Walker delight in trickling real historical information — the result of painstaking research they both conducted studying the Chronovisor — through the film at a slow but steady, always compelling pace.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

Details are still trickling out, but here’s what we know.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

But this time, on championship point number six, a serve came cracking down that Muchova could barely get a racquet to, the ball trickling away just a few yards along the grass.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

Yet it’s hard to see the spoils of an AI-driven economy trickling down to everyone.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

Despite the February cold, sweat is trickling down Mr. Byrne’s temple.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline




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