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It worked to pare down menus and offer dinner deals, and rolled out items like slow-braised pot roast and hash-brown casserole shepherd’s pie.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

Zola’s Forrest suggested that I could pare back my gift giving from $150 to $50, or an amount that won’t cause financial stress.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

Warsh’s push to pare back how the Fed narrates its outlook for jobs, growth and inflation—and how it weighs the risks around it—has left markets with more uncertainty about the central bank’s tactics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

Oil prices, which had spiked more than five percent earlier Monday, pare earlier gains, and on Tuesday they were down.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

It was necessary to pare down faith to a set of core beliefs in order to make it defensible.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The bank pares its 2026 earnings-per-share estimate for Resolute by 4% to 15.1 U.S. cents, but makes no changes to its 2027 and 2028 estimates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

Her style, she explains, pares food down to its essentials, and she rarely uses more than three colours to aid wearability.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026

CrowdStrike pares back the last session’s losses following an upgrade at Wolfe Research.

From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026

“It basically pares down the science team to next to nothing and really operates the spacecraft with a minimal cadre,” he says.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 3, 2023

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

"The continued steady growth of the eurozone economy... shows that households and businesses have not pared back their spending much due to the Iran war," Andrew Kenningham, chief Europe economist for Capital Economics, said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Mr. Brown in 2012 championed modest reforms that pared benefits for future workers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

The 2026 Games have been pared back compared to previous editions, with 10 sports rather than the 17 it featured in 2014.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

Investors breathed a sigh of relief at the data and pared their bets on a Fed rate hike this month, though analysts warned the latest US-Iran flare-up could complicate matters.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

From the age of three it has been planed and polished, pared down, harnessed wholly to the task of storytelling.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

But after initially paring gains, Reuters reported, citing an Iranian source, on a proposal that offered 10 days with no strikes, in an effort to revive an interim peace deal reached last month.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

Brent North Sea crude, the international benchmark, rallied as much as five percent, before paring gains to trade around 3.5 percent higher at about $78 a barrel.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

—In early European trading, Brent crude was up 3.55% to $78.71 a barrel, while WTI futures rose 3.5% to $73.90 a barrel, slightly paring earlier gains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Rajan has warned of the asymmetry in using QE by highlighting how paring back the balance sheet is harder than expanding it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

She balanced her paring knife on a neat pile of turnip peels and put her hands on her hips.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez