boiled down

past tense of boil down

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Recent Examples of boiled down 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 That method essentially boiled down to tanking, or at least trying to frontload the roster with early draft picks and young talent. — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 24 July 2026 In many conversations, climate change gets boiled down to individual events, or even just the simple sum of multiple events. — Justin Worland, Time, 18 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boiled down
Verb
  • Today, CMOs win when their brands are cited, summarized and recommended inside generative answers, where discovery and decisions now happen.
    — Vin Sonpal, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Yet Marcon’s works defy old-world tempos with their pacing (the shots in Monelle, 2017, last no more than a second each), their length (several clock in at under five minutes), and, of course, the seeming ease with which they can be summarized.
    — Matthew McLean, Artforum, 22 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • And then there was the Israeli condition that Hamas disarmament should come first, and then the rest of the promises outlined in the ceasefire could follow.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Amazon said it was not given advanced notice that Muse would access its store and outlined several other concerns.
    — Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026

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“Boiled down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boiled%20down. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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