How to Use trickle-down in a Sentence

trickle-down

adjective
  • 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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