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OpenAI has also had to pare its ambitions in a private funding round ahead of an expected IPO next year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

At 592 pages, this book could easily feel like a smug kiss-off to all those — present company included — who have criticized Schoenbrun’s reluctance to pare down their concepts into less dense works.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026

As conventional grocery stores such as Ralphs and Albertsons pare back locations, Vallarta and other specialty markets are filling the gap, sometimes moving into communities that had lost their go-to supermarkets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

The financial strain is already causing developers to pare back on new construction and instead buy distressed properties at a sharp discount.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

He needed someone who could collaborate with MTI to pare down the show, simplify some of the music and set, while still pulling off a production that would impress Mackintosh.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

First, the order pares the list of recommended immunizations to 11 diseases from 17.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Siemens Energy pares losses to fall 4.8%, while GE Vernova shares fall 5% premarket.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Moderna pares early gains even as the drugmaker posts higher revenue and a narrower loss for the first quarter.

From Barron's ● May 1, 2026

When the prime minister addresses the cabinet, not far away in 10 Downing Street, he is primus inter pares, first among equals, sitting among his or her ministers.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025

The Old Dominion was accustomed to thinking of itself as primus inter pares in any confederation of states.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

This latest decline is down not just to hot weather, which has been slightly mitigated by recent rainfall, but also a reduction in cultivated areas -- pared back 1.9 percent in the past year.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Both main contracts fell Monday, extending Friday's drop, though the losses were pared by news that Yemen had started a new military operation to retake all territory held by the Houthis.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

The sentence is now pared down to a simpler but rhythmically effective line mimicking the weight that was on Darwin: “With a heavy heart he buried himself in barnacles.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Nasdaq futures pared earlier gains, but still rose 0.4% as chip makers broadly gained.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Pauline, twenty pounds thinner, looked like a more concentrated version of herself: whittled down, somehow, pared down to her essence.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

That floor holds about 35,000 square feet of gallery space, so its closing represents a significant paring back for a period of time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

On Thursday, the 30-year yield rose to an intraday high of 5.732%, the highest level seen since June 2002, according to FactSet data, before paring its gains to 5.661%.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Brent crude spiked above $99 a barrel before paring gains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

The S&P 500 reached an intraday high of 7,741.27 on Thursday, before paring some gains to close at 7,730.99.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

She stands in front of her sink, her wicked paring knife in one hand, a half-peeled potato in the other.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood