as in to summarize
to make into a short statement of the main points (as of a report)
the discussion of the problem can be boiled down to a couple of critical points
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Recent Examples of boil down
The feelings include all of the above, but mostly boil down to excitement.
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Patrick Gomez, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
Pretty soon, success is going to boil down to who can set their thermostat most effectively anyway.
—Caroline Rose Giuliani, New Yorker, 19 May 2026
Scientists, in their quest to gather reliable data, have had to boil down consciousness to only factors that can be measured through experiments.
—Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 15 May 2026
That creates a fissure among the survivors, an escalating conflict through which the behaviors of young men, both for better and worse (mostly worse), are boiled down to their terrifying essence.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 4 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for boil down
Patrick Gomez, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
Pretty soon, success is going to boil down to who can set their thermostat most effectively anyway.
—Caroline Rose Giuliani, New Yorker, 19 May 2026
Scientists, in their quest to gather reliable data, have had to boil down consciousness to only factors that can be measured through experiments.
—Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 15 May 2026
That creates a fissure among the survivors, an escalating conflict through which the behaviors of young men, both for better and worse (mostly worse), are boiled down to their terrifying essence.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 4 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for boil down
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boil down
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By the time a signal travels from the people doing the work to the people leading the organization, it’s been filtered, summarized, and optimized at every layer in between.—
Adrienne Down Coulson,
Fortune,
2 June 2026
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Markey sent Amazon a letter in October 2025 asking how Familiar Faces works, and summarized Amazon’s responses in a February 2026 letter that repeated his call to end Familiar Faces.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
2 June 2026
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By then, analysts outlined how the NDAA’s provision to arm Iraq with equivalent systems could ultimately scupper any Kurdish acquisition, or at least delay it indefinitely.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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The program currently requires companies to submit a plan to the EPA outlining safety precautions, hazard assessments in the case of an accidental release and emergency response steps.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
30 May 2026
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