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as in to drip
to fall or let fall in or as if in drops
trickled a little honey into her tea
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as in to splash
to flow in a broken irregular stream
the brook trickled along the glade
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Recent Examples of trickle
Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2024
The truth behind her abduction steadily trickles out across the season, but the way her children are torn apart is made apparent from the beginning.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
Andrew Williams, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Advertisement The competitiveness trickles down from the coaches’ room, with Hortiz and Harbaugh bringing in coordinators from Harbaugh’s successful stints in Michigan and San Francisco.
—Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
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Verb
The crowd has trickled out a bit, but there are still plenty of people around.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2024
The truth behind her abduction steadily trickles out across the season, but the way her children are torn apart is made apparent from the beginning.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
Noun
Finally, the usual trickle down of Garmin features continues with this December update.
—Andrew Williams, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Advertisement The competitiveness trickles down from the coaches’ room, with Hortiz and Harbaugh bringing in coordinators from Harbaugh’s successful stints in Michigan and San Francisco.
—Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
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Afterward, the result was a mixture of rockrose leaves dripping with labdanum, a sticky resin, that the scientists used to haft arrowheads to wood in a type of makeshift spear.Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
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Santa Belly Doughnut: An unglazed doughnut filled with white cream, dripped in red icing, piped with a black chocolate Santa belt and topped with a belt buckle.Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2024
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The nuclear-capable missile was fired from the southern Chinese province of Hainan and its dummy warhead splashed down in the South Pacific Ocean.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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The spacecraft orbited Earth twice with Enos performing various tasks before splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean, with the chimpanzee alive and well. 1963: President Lyndon Johnson formed a commission led by Earl Warren to investigate President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.The Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 28 Nov. 2024
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First came a slew of dribble handoffs to get Thomas driving off a pick-and-roll.Luca Evans, Orange County Register, 17 Dec. 2024
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In his roughly 12 minutes per game, Sheppard has looked timid and tentative, and unable to create anything off the dribble.Rahat Huq, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Our team coach would pass by all those terraced houses in Moss Side, a setting that gets the juices flowing.Andy Mitten, The Athletic, 14 Dec. 2024
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Photo : Courtesy of Elad Group The dining area flows to the backyard.Mark David, Robb Report, 13 Dec. 2024
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And make sure to wash your hands frequently with soap and water.Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
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The New York Yankees need to trade for Houston Astros right fielder Kyle Tucker and wash their Juan Soto blues away.Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 13 Dec. 2024
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When a little salsa drips over the side after a pour or your bottle of ketchup ends up with a spatter, rinse them off immediately.Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2024
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Lots of options are less conspicuous than the one that involves a broken windshield speckled with blood spatter.Brian Grubb, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2024
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On all four sides of the full-block building, greenish columns line up along the sidewalk in sets of rippling triplets, drawing the eye upward to a subtly articulated green terra-cotta grid.Justin Davidson, Curbed, 4 Dec. 2024
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While many Catholic churches ring small bells for auditory cues, the deep vibrations of the drum beat ripple through the wooden pews of this Dunning neighborhood chapel, a tactile prompt for its predominantly deaf and hard of hearing congregation.Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 1 Dec. 2024
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Two court officers, both of whom carried guns and handcuffs and wore black bulletproof vests and otherwise stoic expressions, wiped tears from their eyes.Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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Here’s our breakdown of the schools that have reason to celebrate, that experienced mixed results and that should be shedding some tears.Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 8 Dec. 2024
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“Trickle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trickle. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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