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  • verb Present participle of percolate.

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Examples

  • But another idea that has been percolating is making the stress tests — which were just performed on the nation’s 19 largest banks — a permanent feature of the regulatory regime.

    Wonk Room » On Making The Stress Tests Permanent 2009

  • This is unlikely to be a voting issue at the Presidential level, but we need to get the idea percolating that we are about to elect

    Archive 2008-10-01 Teresa 2008

  • This is unlikely to be a voting issue at the Presidential level, but we need to get the idea percolating that we are about to elect

    Divided Government Teresa 2008

  • This is unlikely to be a voting issue at the Presidential level, but we need to get the idea percolating that we are about to elect

    Divided Government Teresa 2008

  • This is unlikely to be a voting issue at the Presidential level, but we need to get the idea percolating that we are about to elect

    Divided Government Teresa 2008

  • I could almost see the idea percolating through his brain cells.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

  • With plans for a recall percolating, about 40 residents attended the Nov. 20 board meeting, which "deteriorated into shouting from the public directed at board members," the minutes state.

    Gazette.com : 2009

  • This is unlikely to be a voting issue at the Presidential level, but we need to get the idea percolating that we are about to elect Obama with unchecked, unlimited power.

    Libertarian Blog Place 2008

  • This is unlikely to be a voting issue at the Presidential level, but we need to get the idea percolating that we are about to elect Obama with unchecked, unlimited power.

    The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan 2008

  • Academic work is so strange-- although we can quantify a lot of it in terms of conference papers, articles, etc., a lot of our time is spent "percolating", letting things bump around long enough until we can bring our ideas into the world.

    One Bright Star (1B*) Reignited 2006

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