boiled down

For all his endless rambling nonsense, Donald Trump's message can be boiled down to a simple lie: If one group of people does well, it must necessarily be at the expense of another.

While news outlets rushed to provide “fact-checking,” which boiled down to “None of this is true,” the country, already exhausted and traumatized by a pandemic, tried to contextualize the enormity of Trump’s actions.

The contents of the investigation were boiled down to nine slides for a public presentation — including a title page and one that said simply “Conclusion.”

But she said her decision boiled down to who she thought could help shake San Francisco’s post-pandemic economic malaise and alleviate fears of crime.

Kuhn’s reasoning boiled down to anatomy — mine, above my bra line, and the ballplayers’, below their belts.