paring down

Example Sentences

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Earlier this month, Fitch Ratings upgraded CK Hutchison’s credit rating, citing progress in paring down debt.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 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

The fancied reconciliation consists in paring down one half of the full-orbed truth to nothing, or in admitting it in words while every principle of the reconciler's system demands its denial.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Maclaren, Alexander