as in summarizing
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 boiling down
Paul fears art imitating life by also boiling down to breadline survival strategies.
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Guy Lodge, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
Guy Lodge, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boiling down
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Baseball beauty and a maddening soap opera not even worth an attempt at summarizing.—
Cody Stavenhagen,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
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Kolondra said that Opera’s Neon only processes data when users ask it to, like when summarizing a page, and all requests are end-to-end encrypted.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
11 Oct. 2025
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The document outlining the proposal was obtained by multiple outlets.—
Rachel Wolf,
FOXNews.com,
11 Oct. 2025
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Namely, the show played a brief montage outlining the history between Behar, Plaza, and the ghosts that The View host has allegedly slept with.—
James Factora,
Them.,
10 Oct. 2025
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