boil
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In all the national postseason hype, the Dodgers projections will boil down to one sentence: Can anyone stop those starters?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
Simmering worries that the technology could wipe out civilization and launch cyberattacks reached a boil at the office and around the dinner table—and prompted AI leaders to call for more regulation of the technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
It will boil down to Sunday's singles, where all 12 players face off for the crucial points that will decide the winner.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
While Dudley listed a number of different issues, they boil down to three big ones.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
The next day we came to a village, and the people there gave our group a gourd for water, dried kernels of corn to boil for food, and a pot to cook in.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
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His general attitude about wellness largely boils down to the single best piece of advice he ever received, from Pep Guardiola.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
“Producers would like to stay home if they can, but it boils down to the math.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Druckenmiller’s opposition to Treasury policy in essence boils down to Margaret Thatcher’s famous dictum: “You cannot buck the market.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Epicurious’ recipe for a delicious summertime lettuce soup seasons, boils and purées a whole head of lettuce, including both the leaves and ribs, coarsely chopped.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
My mom boils the dirty tap water to sterilize it and then puts it outside in the snow to cool it.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
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Ube was a staple of Philippine gardens as long as 5,000 years ago, boiled and eaten by families as a substitute to rice when their provisions ran out.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
Michael Govan, Lucas Museum board member and chief executive of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, said Lucas choosing L.A. boiled down to “audience and the location.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Public frustration with it had boiled over in 2022, when Ticketmaster botched ticket sales for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Three races into this season, after the Japanese Grand Prix, the frustrations of driving the new hybrid engines of this year boiled over in Verstappen.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
She had calabashes of water and boiled marula juice, a pot of toasted grasshoppers, a basket of tsenza roots, and a small grass mat covered with ripe bramble berries.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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Within the party and beyond it, a row is now boiling.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
“The whole system was, in a sense, just boiling — primed and ready to release all of that stored up energy come January 7th,” he said at a Thursday press briefing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Instead of cooking the pasta separately, Meghan puts it directly on top of tomatoes with some lemon zest and greens, then pours boiling water over the whole mixture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Parboil the rice: Cook the rice in generously salted boiling water for 8 minutes.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
In pioneer days there was said to be a boiling spring around here.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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