BOILED DOWN Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

boiled down

verb

past tense of boil down

as in summarized

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 boiled down The Charter Reform Commission’s recommendations have been boiled down to six charter amendments. — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026 The Emmy winner said his purpose in the movie boiled down to just running around. — Zack Sharf, Variety, 28 Sep. 2026 Presumably, his unclear methodology boiled down to randomly sampling primes and dividing each from RSA-260 until one of them divided evenly. — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2026 His issues mainly get boiled down to desperately needing to masturbate. — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026 The fact is, much of our financial lives can be boiled down to a few big decisions. — Bydoug Ashburn, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Aug. 2026 These toads would be boiled down in billycans to produce a sludgy brew, which the hippies purportedly drank. — Kimon De Greef, Longreads, 4 Aug. 2026 In its simplest form, the show’s plot can be boiled down to a war between Team Green (the color of House Hightower) and Team Black (the color of House Targaryen). — Christina Perrier, InStyle, 30 July 2026 Our attempts to understand mental health challenges usually boiled down to a conversation about having better work/life balance. — Mark C. Perna, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

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The note summarized a cybercrime campaign in which three open-source AI agents allegedly worked together to breach at least 27 organizations and take more than 600,000 credit card records from two of them.

— Joshua Hong, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
Each story gets summarized into a sentence or two accompanied by a link to the source for those seeking more information.

— Joel Feder, The Drive, 14 Oct. 2026

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In his annual threat update at MI5 headquarters in London, Sir Ken McCallum outlined the growing challenges facing the country, from hostile foreign governments and terrorism to the potential misuse of AI.

— Tucker Reals, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
Last month, Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok even outlined a possible bank run scenario caused by AI.

— Hugh Son,Laya Neelakandan,Leslie Picker,Ritika Shah, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026

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