pare
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Though some investors interpreted Warsh’s lack of guidance Wednesday as a signal to pare back risk, traders Thursday piled on more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
It worked to pare down menus and offer dinner deals, and rolled out items like slow-braised pot roast and hash-brown casserole shepherd’s pie.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Weak leasing activity and an overabundance of space combined to push the nationwide vacancy rate up to an 11-year high last year and led many developers to pare back construction plans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Zola’s Forrest suggested that I could pare back my gift giving from $150 to $50, or an amount that won’t cause financial stress.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
“I can do the work,” I blurted out and then tried to pare back my own eagerness.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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First, the order pares the list of recommended immunizations to 11 diseases from 17.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
It keeps a buy rating on IGO, but pares its target on the stock to A$10.00 from A$10.80.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
Her style, she explains, pares food down to its essentials, and she rarely uses more than three colours to aid wearability.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
CrowdStrike pares back the last session’s losses following an upgrade at Wolfe Research.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
The Old Dominion was accustomed to thinking of itself as primus inter pares in any confederation of states.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Shein pared some losses, ending the day with a decline of about 4% at HK$46.58, or $5.94.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
The dollar fell 0.3% against a basket of currencies after reaching a 10-week low earlier, as weaker-than-expected data led to pared rate-hike expectations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Training was pared back on Thursday after Jaissle - stopwatch hanging from his neck - recognised the legs of his squad were "heavy".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
“Everyone’s pared down or pared up, and so they’re all equal.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 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
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The S&P 500 reached an intraday high of 7,741.27 on Thursday, before paring some gains to close at 7,730.99.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
The Japanese unit strengthened from a four-decade low around 163 to the greenback Friday, to 155.23 Monday, its best level since May, before paring the gains.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
But after initially paring gains, Reuters reported, citing an Iranian source, on a proposal that offered 10 days with no strikes, in an effort to revive an interim peace deal reached last month.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
“He went from paring down his arsenal to kind of two pitches, to regrow his arsenal while he’s learning how to pitch at this level,” Prior said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
She stands in front of her sink, her wicked paring knife in one hand, a half-peeled potato in the other.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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