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Microsoft is making buyout offers to 60,000 employees, the latest bid by a big tech company to pare its workforce and make way for AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

As conventional grocery stores such as Ralphs and Albertsons pare back locations, Vallarta and other specialty markets are filling the gap, sometimes moving into communities that had lost their go-to supermarkets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Warner Bros. demanded Russell pare down the film’s most intense scenes yet still slapped it with an X rating in the U.S. and U.K., while other countries banned it outright.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 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

It takes cognitive toil and literary dexterity to pare an argument to its essentials, narrate it in an orderly sequence, and illustrate it with analogies that are both familiar and accurate.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

First, the order pares the list of recommended immunizations to 11 diseases from 17.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

EV maker’s stock down more than 50% intraday, then pares the bulk of those losses after Lucid says ‘the rumors are completely false’

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 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

Gold futures settled lower as the U.S. dollar firmed, yields rose and oil prices pared early losses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

This latest decline is down not just to hot weather, which has been slightly mitigated by recent rainfall, but also a reduction in cultivated areas -- pared back 1.9 percent in the past year.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Both main contracts fell Monday, extending Friday's drop, though the losses were pared by news that Yemen had started a new military operation to retake all territory held by the Houthis.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Investors this week have pared bets on an October interest-rate increase by the Fed, now pricing in only about a 39% chance of a hike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

I took out my knife, opened it, wiped off the blade and pared off the dirty outside surface of the cheese.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

That floor holds about 35,000 square feet of gallery space, so its closing represents a significant paring back for a period of time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Shares of the Seoul-based AI cloud-computing company fell as much as 36% from their initial public offering price to 58,300 won in afternoon trading Tuesday, before paring losses to trade at 58,600 won.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

On Thursday, the yield rose to an intraday high of 5.732%, the highest yield seen since June 2002, according to FactSet data, before paring gains to 5.661%.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

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 paring knife she uses is worn so thin its blade is barely more than a crescent moon sliver.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood