boiled down
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Musk boiled down his legal team’s main argument succinctly on the stand: “It’s not OK to steal a charity.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
Missing the entire 2000-01 season, his audition effectively boiled down to four games with Inter at the end of the next, scoring four times.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026
The answers I received boiled down to one common theme: we live in a society based on scarcity.
From Salon • Jan. 26, 2026
Shorting can be boiled down to betting that the value of an asset will fall, rather than rise, over a given period.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 2, 2026
Over the next few days, Lyra concocted a dozen plans and dismissed them impatiently; for they all boiled down to stowing away, and how could you stow away on a narrowboat?
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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