paring down

Example Sentences

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And in the spirit of paring down, he decides to move from his Federal-style manse into a playhouse version of it in the backyard.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

Hundreds of other FAA employees, many of them probationary workers, were fired earlier this month as part of DOGE's paring down of the federal government.

From Salon • Feb. 27, 2025

Before Chutkan set a briefing schedule, Smith obtained a superseding indictment, paring down the charges to remove allegations the Supreme Court held were absolutely immune.

From Slate • Oct. 18, 2024

But policymakers will need to stop doing that at some point, because paring down bond holdings too much could cause chaos in markets.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2024

We constantly modify our memories to agree more closely with the truths of social belief, paring down unconsciously the difference between our own and others' reports of things.

From The Story of the Mind by Baldwin, James Mark