boiled down
Example Sentences
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Political scandals have always boiled down to whether the party in question has failed to live up to a standard that its constituents expect their representatives to abide by.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 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 answers I received boiled down to one common theme: we live in a society based on scarcity.
From Salon • Jan. 26, 2026
Shorting can be boiled down to betting that the value of an asset will fall, rather than rise, over a given period.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 2, 2026
The problem boiled down to the fact that they wanted to become Americans and their father—and their mother, too, at first—would have none of it.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
