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“It will all boil down to one thing — is it any good?”

From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026

Thereupon nuclear bluster permanently vanished from the U.S. presidential vocabulary, experts in diplomacy tell us, for reasons that boil down to a loss of credibility once Moscow could match the U.S. in nuclear firepower.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

City of Brandon, a little-discussed case out of the controversial 5th Circuit that sounded, at first, like it would boil down to familiar ideological flashpoints.

From Slate • Jan. 8, 2026

Let me boil down the therapy-speak for you: I tend to ignore conflict in my relationships because I’m hyper-independent but simultaneously crave intimacy with people even though I also fear it.

From Salon • Jan. 4, 2025

I scooped under the snow for teaberry plants to boil down and pour over snowballs for dessert.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George




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