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His goal is to whittle that down to around 30%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

For more than a decade, I’ve been teaching a course at the California Institute of the Arts called American Drama Now, and each year the selection of plays has become harder to whittle down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

Builders had hoped to capitalize on a busy spring buying season to whittle down inventories, but it was disappointing.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026

If you have a highly concentrated stock allocation with large built-up gains, you can gradually whittle down your position and use the $6,000 deduction to minimize or cancel the tax hit, Adams says.

From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 2026

Riders competing in ordinary weekday events needed to whittle themselves down another 5 pounds or so, while those in the lowest echelons of the sport couldn’t weigh much more than 100.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

That’s because inflation whittles away at the real purchasing power of those future interest payments.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026

A newer House version whittles this down to 23 countries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025

This event often whittles down the primary field to a handful of candidates.

From Reuters ● Aug. 16, 2023

Every day, new development next to I-5 whittles away at opportunities to build a connected landscape in Southwest Washington.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2023

It whittles you down to lie up to fifty times in the space of the fifteen minutes or so it takes to do a “survey,” even when there’s a higher moral purpose to serve.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

Originally conceived as a $23-billion bond measure that the Legislature would approve to go before voters in November, it was whittled down to $12 billion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

That whittled the list down to the 3,300 candidates who were granted interviews.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

That marks the reversal of a 15-year period when company buybacks and mergers-and-acquisitions activity whittled down the actual number of shares out there to invest, giving stocks fuel to keep rising, said McElligott.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026

That percentage rises to almost 59% when those fixtures are whittled down to just competitive qualifiers, which after this summer will ultimately have been responsible for taking the Tartan Army to three tournaments.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

Zheng held the little whale Razi had whittled.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

The first line of defense is knowing what the government is allowed to come after with Medicaid estate recovery, then working on whittling that pile down to nothing.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

He describes his efforts as “more akin to whittling at a piece of wood—for I am removing word after word until what remains seems to be the truth.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

After whittling what had been a 24-point deficit to four with a little more than three minutes left Saturday, the Bruins could not find the miracle finish they were seeking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2026

Billed as a fundraiser, the debt-ridden centre said the money from the portfolios would go towards whittling down a long list of overdue bills, including unpaid wages for educators.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2025

He sat by the fire, pleasantly full of meat, whittling a whistle from a piece of grouse bone.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver