boiling down

present participle of boil down

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of boiling down Paul fears art imitating life by also boiling down to breadline survival strategies. Guy Lodge, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boiling down
Verb
  • Baseball beauty and a maddening soap opera not even worth an attempt at summarizing.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • The document outlining the proposal was obtained by multiple outlets.
    Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
  • 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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“Boiling down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boiling%20down. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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