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
And that could stimulate more activity for companies involved in building and financing these projects, which will eventually trickle down to the broader economy, the Wells Fargo team said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 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
They would trickle out in dribs and drabs, memories surfacing suddenly, prompted by the merest thread, the way memories often do.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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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
If fresh information that trickles in late can be used to resolve bets, they might never be fully settled, these traders argue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
Pistachio’s ubiquity is also new as the nut trickles down from TikTok virality to mass market explosion.
From Salon ● May 6, 2026
This salt-free water trickles down and collects in a gully on the perimeter of the cone, from which it drains into a pouch.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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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
Press access and related battles have trickled down to the local level, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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
Sweat trickled down the back of his neck.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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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
The money starts compounding immediately instead of trickling in over the five years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 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
Gaea’s laughter was a soft rustling sound, like dirt trickling down a hill in the first moments of an avalanche.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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