How to Use trickle-down in a Sentence
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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 -
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 -
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 -
But the higher shipping costs will have a trickle-down effect in the long run, ultimately hitting consumers.
— Ruth Liao, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2023 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
But the economic stakes appear to be higher in the carriage dispute, with trickle-down effects impacting the entire business.
— Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023 -
Top predators like wolves and sharks whose absence had drastic trickle-down impacts were demonstrably keystones.
— Lesley Evans Ogden, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2024 -
At the same time, Jablow said, these results do not take into account the trickle-down effect of these same sentiments being reflected on a national scale.
— Lacey Latch, The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2023 -
But there’s a trickle-down pressure from the torrent of dollars cascading into Power-5 conferences.
— Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023 -
Liz Truss, who succeeded Mr. Johnson, was forced out after her trickle-down tax cuts backfired in financial markets.
— Stephen Castle, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2023 -
Whether or not to receive a Covid-19 vaccine became an expression of opinion, rather than an informed health decision, and this has had a trickle-down effect to other vaccines.
— Gregory A. Poland, STAT, 14 Aug. 2024 -
Getty Images Across the country, Americans are still dealing with the trickle-down effects the pandemic left in its wake–and real estate is no exception.
— Diane Tomb, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2023
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