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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

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

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

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

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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