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has been trickling

  • present perfect progressive of trickle (3rd person singular).

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Now they hope for what before would have been dreaded — capture by the Border Patrol, even hospitalization — anything but the solemn finality that has been trickling out family by family across the region.

From Seattle Times Jul. 1, 2022

But in the past couple years, a new class of Chromebooks has been trickling in.

From The Verge Feb. 10, 2022

But film production has been trickling back for some time, lured by tax incentives and the fact that so many actors, directors and other film professionals live in and around New York.

From New York Times Jan. 11, 2022

Over the last few weeks, information has been trickling out through indictments, bail hearings, and other court proceedings.

From Slate Feb. 17, 2021

All the moisture that has been trickling down here during the past week has been from the thawing out of the frozen hillsides, but those slopes are almost dust dry now.”

From The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man by Flagg, James Montgomery