paring down

Example Sentences

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He is paring down Public’s restaurants to offer fast-casual and takeout food from third-party operators, which he said will save on labor and other costs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026

Hundreds of other FAA employees, many of them probationary workers, were fired earlier this month as part of DOGE's paring down of the federal government.

From Salon • Feb. 27, 2025

Before Chutkan set a briefing schedule, Smith obtained a superseding indictment, paring down the charges to remove allegations the Supreme Court held were absolutely immune.

From Slate • Oct. 18, 2024

They also reveal a secret of the craft, namely that you can make an image very evocative by paring down its context in the right way.

From New York Times • May 2, 2024

We constantly modify our memories to agree more closely with the truths of social belief, paring down unconsciously the difference between our own and others' reports of things.

From The Story of the Mind by Baldwin, James Mark