whittle

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Even that won’t be the end of Paramount’s problems since it will have to unlock hefty synergies to whittle down a mountain of debt.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

When you work on other aspects of your 2025 taxes, you may whittle your income down enough to qualify.

From Barron's • Nov. 25, 2025

“American Primeval” “As always, this is one of the tougher categories to whittle down, but my favorite of the year remains ‘The Penguin.’

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2025

To whittle it down — I thought about the emotional parallels with our own species, humans.

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2025

“The Forest Olympics, Turkey Vulture called it. After that, he had us whittle spears, which was cool until Steve sat on mine and broke it. And Scorpion kept pretending that I was the deer-hide target.”

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth