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- verb Present participle of
percolate .
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Examples
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I could almost see the idea percolating through his brain cells.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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