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boil down to

verb as in add up to

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On Wednesday, Yglesias posted a list of rules that he thinks Democrats should follow going forward; several of them boil down to rejecting the inclusion jargon used by activists and academics.

From Slate

And so, in a sense, the many questions posed by this showdown boil down to just one: Will the next president embrace the traditional role of a commander in chief with robust yet limited powers, with a fundamental obligation to serve the citizenry over her parochial needs, and with ultimate accountability to the people and the law?

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The race may boil down to Nevada, and voters like the man I met who is holding his nose and voting for Harris — because she’s not inane.

From Salon

His positions largely boil down to reversals of Gascón’s edicts and a promise to operate in “the hard middle.”

The accusations are myriad, but many boil down to the same complaint: They had a problem, and when they contacted customer service, Spirit told them exactly where they could shove it.

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