Example Sentences

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Even in the film’s most convoluted moments, there’s a fire of dissent percolating just beneath its surface.

From Salon • May 22, 2026

To be sure, worries about the sustainability of the U.S. fiscal situation have been percolating for years.

From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026

Even though, as she sings on the percolating title track, her autism means she's often "acting" in ways that she's learned people will expect.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2025

For some, it’s a last hurrah, the culmination of ideas that had been percolating for years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 4, 2025

I don’t read no hostility, not toward me, anyway, but something’s percolating in it.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness