How to Use trickle-down in a Sentence

trickle-down

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• The trickle-down effect left the Spurs hurting on the bench.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Mar. 2023
• The idea of trickle-down economics doesn't work, in my view.
  — Robert Costa, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2024
• And this may have a trickle-down effect on our health and well-being.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
• But that doesn’t mean there won’t be trickle-down effects.
  — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
• Courtesy of Isaac Now that the law is in place in his own state, Isaac is concerned about the trickle-down effect.
  — Maura Barrett, NBC News, 18 June 2024
• But experts said posts like these tend to have a trickle-down effect.
  — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
• And the American populace doesn’t seem to like this change from many decades of, well, trickle-down.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 5 July 2023
• Few schools are completely immune to the Tuscaloosa trickle-down.
  — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2024
• And in the world of sports, trickle-down economics can be a viable option when nothing else worked.
  — Mark Deeks, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• If the scientists’ scheme works, the return of seabirds—and their prodigious poop—should have trickle-down effects around the island.
  — Tim Lydon, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
• This damage to wildlife can have a trickle-down effect to damage the entire ecosystem.
  — Katherine Gallagher, Treehugger, 29 June 2023
• But that trickle-down effect hasn’t been enough to sustain and grow the Classic ridership.
  — oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2023
• The trickle-down effects can be seen throughout U.S. culture.
  — Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 7 Aug. 2024
• There’s some concern that the absence of this year’s event will have a trickle-down effect on the biking community.
  — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2024
• The interference with commercial trade in the Red Sea has a trickle-down effect that could drive up the costs of goods on Maryland households.
  — Chevy Weiss, Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2024
• But 10 years later, trickle-down tech has made the Artura a downright bargain.
  — Peter Nelson, The Verge, 23 Dec. 2024
• Also, there’s a trickle-down effect in football in which the NFL does something and, to a degree, college and high school football follow suit.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2023
• Their success signals the future of AI adoption and has a trickle-down effect on the e-commerce industry.
  — Max Firsau, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• Shortages in these areas have a direct trickle-down impact on the taxpayers.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 6 May 2023
• There’s also a trickle-down economic effect, even for those who weren’t displaced.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025
• But the higher shipping costs will have a trickle-down effect in the long run, ultimately hitting consumers.
  — Ruth Liao, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2023
• There could be an additional trickle-down effect from fewer rideshares or food orders and even less of a chance of drunk online shopping.
  — Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2025
• One of the main ones being, obviously, the increasingly wide gap between people who have a lot of money and people who don’t, and the trickle-down effect that has on the world.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2023
• This has created a trickle-down trend where the upper middle and middle class don’t have the same demand for luxury goods and status markers.
  — Hakyung Kim, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2024
• Invite leaders into the minds of bad actors and explain how system gaps and human oversight have a trickle-down effect.
  — Steve Gickling, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
• The shift in snowpack literally has trickle-down results.
  — Christa Case Bryant, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2023
• The performance trickle-down effect also has assisted in keeping the sole plant that produces Corvette in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on two shifts since 2019.
  — Michael Wayland, CNBC, 25 July 2024
• And some health care experts and doctors were optimistic that the boon to Einstein would be felt beyond the campus, with a trickle-down effect that would eventually improve health care across the Bronx.
  — Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024
• This inflammatory response may have trickle-down effects on the gut microbiome, the colony of bacteria and other microbes that live in the GI tract, Rupp says.
  — Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 1 Oct. 2024
• Analysts suggest this was, in part, a trickle-down effect of the ongoing war in Ukraine, provoked by Russia’s invasion last year.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 21 Feb 2025