Verb Tears trickled down her cheeks. Water was trickling out of the gutter. People trickled into the theater. Donations have been trickling in. Noun We heard the trickle of water from the roof. The flow of water slowed to a trickle. Sales have slowed to a trickle in recent weeks. A slow trickle of customers came into the store throughout the day. See More
Recent Examples on the Web
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Grateful Dead versions of its Dunks, and Crocs, which frequently markets limited-clog curiosities, have demonstrated the trickle-down power of virality. Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2022 Its argument largely hinges on a trickle-down effect from shareholders to the rest of society. Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 3 Aug. 2022 Building trust at all levels creates a trickle-down effect and enables sustainable success. Andrew Rains, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022 To be fair, Apple, with a market cap of $2.4 trillion, seems unlikely to be forced to belt-tighten, but at some point all this economizing will have a trickle-down effect in terms of star salaries. Brent Lang, Variety, 21 July 2022 The question now is whether the swimming federation’s strict ruling will have a trickle-down effect. Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 June 2022 Any significant cutbacks will certainly weigh on tech firms that feed off discretionary spending, with a trickle-down effect likely felt by outfits doing commercial business. Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 15 June 2022 Post feels there’s been a trickle-down effect from our use of Venmo. Jen Doll, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2022 To Staley’s point, that will have a trickle-down effect to freshmen and sophomores on the ends of benches and to high school recruits. Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2022
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Meanwhile, Bulnes wants to take a trickle-down approach to fix department morale. Corey Schmidt, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022 Kansas infamously brought in Reaganomics guru Art Laffer to push a sharp cut on income taxes in 2012, touting trickle-down ideology—only for Kansas to reverse course in 2017, after state revenue and economic growth plummeted. Kalena Thomhave, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2022 Adam Smith’s invisible hand of capital is an example of greatness thinking; so is its latter-day analogue, trickle-down economics. Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2022 The trickle-down phenomenon has created a run of its own—on timepieces that, as recently as 2021, still flew under the radar. Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 12 Aug. 2022 The impact of rising temperatures on nature's calendar has trickle-down effects on farming and land management practices in the country, the study said. Helen Regan, CNN, 20 May 2022 But that was before Reagan and the trickle-down vogue for privatizing.Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2022 And that’s that’s part and parcel with the 30 year, uh, Republican trickle-down economics of shifting income.cleveland, 11 Apr. 2022 During season 3, the effectiveness of that trickle-down approach came under a microscope after writer Kayleigh Llewellyn shared a photo of a predominantly female but very white writer’s room on Twitter. Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2022 See More