boiled down
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Musk boiled down his legal team’s main argument succinctly on the stand: “It’s not OK to steal a charity.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
Missing the entire 2000-01 season, his audition effectively boiled down to four games with Inter at the end of the next, scoring four times.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026
The dollar was heading on Thursday toward its strongest position against major rivals in the past month, helped by support from investors that boiled down to more than just one simple catalyst.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 19, 2026
The answers I received boiled down to one common theme: we live in a society based on scarcity.
From Salon • Jan. 26, 2026
Over the next few days, Lyra concocted a dozen plans and dismissed them impatiently; for they all boiled down to stowing away, and how could you stow away on a narrowboat?
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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