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

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Sony has been trickling information out about the upcoming headset over the past several months, and now we have at least a timeframe for when we can expect to get our hands on the hardware.

From The Verge • Aug. 22, 2022

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

The messages corroborate what has been trickling out for months: Boeing was playing fast and loose with passenger safety despite worrying indicators.

From Slate • Jan. 10, 2020

"Word has been trickling out about supermodel/actress Angie Everhart’s health," her rep said at the time.

From Fox News • Oct. 1, 2019

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