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Trendforce, a research firm, said China’s manufacturing advantage could help it whittle away at America’s lead, since it could deploy humanoids faster at scale.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Teams must whittle their roster from 90 or 91 players down to 53 by 31 August.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

For more than a decade, I’ve been teaching a course at the California Institute of the Arts called American Drama Now, and each year the selection of plays has become harder to whittle down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

If you have a highly concentrated stock allocation with large built-up gains, you can gradually whittle down your position and use the $6,000 deduction to minimize or cancel the tax hit, Adams says.

From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 2026

He’s trying to whittle something using a pocketknife.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

That’s because inflation whittles away at the real purchasing power of those future interest payments.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026

A newer House version whittles this down to 23 countries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025

Then, executive producer Michaels whittles a pile of 40 or so sketches down to about 15 — maybe 10 that everyone agrees on, plus another five outliers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025

This event often whittles down the primary field to a handful of candidates.

From Reuters ● Aug. 16, 2023

It whittles you down to lie up to fifty times in the space of the fifteen minutes or so it takes to do a “survey,” even when there’s a higher moral purpose to serve.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

The second series of the hit BBC One show finished on Friday, after the original 21 celebs were whittled down to seven finalists.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

The agents haggled over prices for potato chips and whittled down operating costs with impressive acumen.

From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026

As federal officials have whittled down the countries that still qualify for Temporary Protected Status, Salvadorans make up the largest population of remaining beneficiaries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Even the final list of 16 host cities, whittled down from 23, came down to his personal preferences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

The sky was a black curtain; the stars, ice chips whittled by an old knife.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

He describes his efforts as “more akin to whittling at a piece of wood—for I am removing word after word until what remains seems to be the truth.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

County’s population has been whittling down for the last decade, with 400,000 people leaving since 2016.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

But the key is to put a cap on how much you spend to avoid falling into the trap of whittling away your winnings.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2025

And Bryson DeChambeau was whittling away after losing five of the first seven to Fitzpatrick.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2025

In the shade of the old ticket window a man sat whittling a stick.

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli