pared

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Major U.S. indexes pared losses, finishing well off their session lows.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

The announcement sent AST SpaceMobile shares up 7% in early trading on Tuesday before those gains were pared back.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

Companies at the time invested heavily in enterprise software as corporate employees worked from home, but later pared software spending, citing a need to control costs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

To screen the S&P 500 financials, we pared the list of 76 companies to 74 covered by at least five analysts working for brokerage or research firms polled by FactSet.

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

From the age of three it has been planed and polished, pared down, harnessed wholly to the task of storytelling.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy