percolated

past tense of percolate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of percolated Still, the discussions have percolated in recent days among top officials in the Justice Department, including in the Office of Legal Counsel, which provides legal advice to all executive branch agencies. Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2025 The phrase was on T-shirts all over the stadium as Irish fans mocked Miami’s bad-guy image that percolated on swagger, on battle fatigues worn on road trips. Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025 Ever since the end of the show was announced, a somewhat ironic sentiment has percolated online among those who watched. Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 14 Aug. 2025 The idea percolated pretty fast. William Earl, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025 The pair quietly married last year, a fact that has not yet percolated to her Wikipedia page. Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for percolated
Verb
  • Tyler Andrew Riddle dripped with charisma and smarts.
    Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Minneapolis community mourns after deadly shooting Tears dripped down cheeks as mourners wrote messages at a memorial Wednesday following a deadly shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic church.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Signs Your Child May Be Influenced This hypermasculine ideal has seeped into our mainstream culture to the point that muscle building goals are common among boys.
    Ashleigh N. DeLuca, Parents, 4 Sep. 2025
  • What once lived at the extremes has now seeped into everyday life.
    Jonathan Alpert, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Gas flow also affects stellar initial masses In another study, published in July 2025, astrophysicist Ke-Jung Chen led a research group at the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics using a detailed computer simulation that modeled how gas in the early universe may have flowed.
    Luke Keller, Space.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Waterfalls of tequila flowed from enough bottles to lose count, including those in Aguayo’s group.
    Evan Webeck, Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Riley, a Northern California native, who has always exuded a Zen-like geniality, was part of a generation of young American composers who had turned away from audience-alienating atonal music, which had been proselytized by their teachers in the science-minded postwar academy.
    William Robin, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2025
  • For a leader just three months into his term, Churchill exuded confidence in his address.
    Doug Most August 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Shortly after Dante's Peak was Volcano, which wondered what would happen if lava oozed through downtown Los Angeles.
    Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025

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“Percolated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/percolated. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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