percolating

present participle of percolate

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Recent Examples of percolating Are there any ideas percolating in your head? Jessica Wang, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2025 My trusty spreadsheet looked at a study by Upgraded Points, a financial information website, which eyeballed pay and price patterns from late 2020 – just as the worst bout of inflation in 40 years was percolating – through 2024. Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2025 There are ideas percolating to bring it to life in a physical space in the future, as well as immersive experiences and pop-ups. Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2025 Tilman is currently percolating The Prince of New York, based on the New York Times article and bestselling book My Name isTani. Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 10 Mar. 2025 Confidence boost This mood isn’t just percolating in the halls of power. Simone McCarthy, CNN, 8 Mar. 2025 In recent years, a third limitation has been percolating through physics — in some ways the most dramatic yet. Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 7 Mar. 2025 Speculation about Johnson’s future began percolating during Fox’s pregame coverage of last month’s Super Bowl when the network aired a nearly 5-minute tribute to the Hall of Famer. David Matthews, New York Daily News, 3 Mar. 2025 Some legal scholars have been percolating an argument that the Constitution requires the Supreme Court to limit those agencies’ Congressionally endowed independence in favor of more expansive presidential authority, even though the court decided this issue unanimously in 1935. David Lopez, The Conversation, 24 Feb. 2025

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