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At first, she was content to whittle away at her debt by making the minimum payments for perhaps two decades.

The fact that the Louvre pieces also contain myriad smaller diamonds may have also made them desirable targets, as they won’t need to be whittled or reshaped in order to be offered for resale.

Reich and Chief Operating Officer David Kerns whittled the company down to seven full-time employees.

ReplayTV then got shuttled from owner to owner, getting whittled away as its technology became more outmoded.

And now the Dodgers season has been rudely whittled to two more days.