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  • Winifred had the entire poem typed out and mimeographed and distributed to our committee — to get the ideas percolating, she said — and any suggestions from us were more than welcome, though we knew she had the entire thing mapped out in her head already.†  (source)
  • SCENT OF PERCOLATING COFFEE.†  (source)
  • The rain had finally eased, and the beginning of a blue day was percolating on the horizon.†  (source)
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  • Reporters from far-flung cities wired the same observation back to their editors, and stories of delight and awe began to percolate through the most remote towns.†  (source)
  • By midmorning the storm had abated, although a continuous drizzle still percolated through the mist.†  (source)
  • All of Jasper's stories about newly created vampires had been percolating in my head since he'd explained his past.†  (source)
  • It was not a green SS manual but, rather, a slate-blue Army quartermaster's manual with a title that all but engulfed the paper cover: Improved Methods of Measuring and Predicting Septic Tank Percolation Under Unfavorable Conditions of Soil and Climate.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • Then we hit it with heavy power and burn some off, let it percolate, hit it again.†  (source)
  • Had it percolated gradually through the years until now?†  (source)
  • No matter how wet and cold you are, black coffee percolating will get you through it.†  (source)
  • Several times I passed my hand across the rock hoping to find some trace of humidity—of the slightest percolation.†  (source)
  • Dewey was in the kitchen; Marie, searching for him, found him there, waiting for a pot of coffee to percolate and with the murder-scene photographs spread before him on the kitchen table-bleak stains, spoiling the table's pretty fruit-patterned oil cloth.†  (source)
  • The bloodline was considered eccentric (one Dickman had set herself on fire) and rumours about the family often percolated across Colombo in hushed tones.†  (source)
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