to percolate
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6.1
- verb
- /ˈpɜrkəˌleɪt/
- The idea and design had been percolating in my mind for months.
- social issues percolated
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Watch on YouTubeWhat that does is that it percolates a sense of self doubt in the child.
- What that does is that it percolates a sense of self doubt in the child.
- And so when that inner child is is, is percolating up, what is it saying to you?
- Those things percolate for years and in some cases decades.
- And so I feel like these ideas are are are percolating in the culture at the moment.
- And that all started sort of, I don't know, like percolating in my brain.
- These ideas percolated up in Russia, not in the United States.
- So that message starts to to percolate.
- And that's my, you know, cynicism like percolating up.
- For a very long time, people think the change will eventually percolate from Hong Kong to mainland.
- I mean, it is a win, win, win, win situation with with these kind of, you know, these little teeny myths that kind of percolate about, about these organizations.
- The horror of it began to percolate through and to stimulate the consciences of people who were witnessing it.
- Sometimes you have to move through a place where new ideas percolate, germinate, and maybe those new ideas come from the from a wrong result.
- Their percolating sense of inadequacy that's all brewing under consciousness and when it gets pinged the shame gets activated.
- So that's fascinating to me about how this percolates through the culture and that the the right has no mechanism for that.
- And the, the, you know, ideas that percolate out and the writing process.
Examples
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And a wild thought began to percolate through the crowd.
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Thanks to Papyri, we know how long the news took to percolate through Egypt.
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Those things percolate for years and in some cases decades.
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I felt like I needed some quiet time to let it all percolate.
Fiction book (1994) -
Let the implications of that statement percolate through your brain for a moment, then read on.
Blog text (8) -
An idea has been percolating in my head for a while.
Blog text (5) -
I'm sure this idea will be percolating in the back of my mind for a while.
Blog text (4) -
And the answers, indeed, are percolating up differently through different courts.
Academic text (2001) -
Again, ideological issues percolating far down in society.
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New ideas began to percolate throughout the team after the brainstorming session.
Synonyms
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1.6
To become known by many people
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2.3
Spread among many people, as with a story or rumor
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3.9
To spread information or documents among people
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6.8
To spread information or ideas widely so many people know them
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4.1
Spread an emotion or idea to other people
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2.8
Information becomes known to many people
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5.5
To spread out and reach many people or places
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5.9
Spread ideas, news, or feelings to many people
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2.0
Make information spread among many people
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3.9
Spreading slowly from one place to another, like light or a smell
Antonyms
How Widely
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5.2
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6.7
716
1.6
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6.1
98
3.9
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4.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
percolate = percol + ate
The figurative sense ('spread slowly') is a metaphorical extension of the physical meaning and is only partially inferable from the morphemes for learners unfamiliar with the base process.
Etymology
Percolate keeps the same image of movement 'through', from Latin per- 'through' and colare 'to strain', but used for ideas or news instead of liquid. So when something percolates it spreads slowly and becomes known little by little.