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Trendforce, a research firm, said China’s manufacturing advantage could help it whittle away at America’s lead, since it could deploy humanoids faster at scale.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Teams must whittle their roster from 90 or 91 players down to 53 by 31 August.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

For more than a decade, I’ve been teaching a course at the California Institute of the Arts called American Drama Now, and each year the selection of plays has become harder to whittle down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

If you have a highly concentrated stock allocation with large built-up gains, you can gradually whittle down your position and use the $6,000 deduction to minimize or cancel the tax hit, Adams says.

From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 2026

Riders competing in ordinary weekday events needed to whittle themselves down another 5 pounds or so, while those in the lowest echelons of the sport couldn’t weigh much more than 100.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

That’s because inflation whittles away at the real purchasing power of those future interest payments.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026

A newer House version whittles this down to 23 countries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025

Even as the state hospital whittles down its waitlist, it’s still grappling with how to handle the influx of patients with a wide range of needs.

From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2024

This event often whittles down the primary field to a handful of candidates.

From Reuters ● Aug. 16, 2023

It whittles you down to lie up to fifty times in the space of the fifteen minutes or so it takes to do a “survey,” even when there’s a higher moral purpose to serve.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

Several have whittled their construction times down to record lows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

As federal officials have whittled down the countries that still qualify for Temporary Protected Status, Salvadorans make up the largest population of remaining beneficiaries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

That marks the reversal of a 15-year period when company buybacks and mergers-and-acquisitions activity whittled down the actual number of shares out there to invest, giving stocks fuel to keep rising, said McElligott.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026

That percentage rises to almost 59% when those fixtures are whittled down to just competitive qualifiers, which after this summer will ultimately have been responsible for taking the Tartan Army to three tournaments.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

While I was considering it, he took up the hoe blade that had crossed the Atlantic in our mother’s purse and shoved it onto a long pole he’d whittled to fit its socket.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

The first line of defense is knowing what the government is allowed to come after with Medicaid estate recovery, then working on whittling that pile down to nothing.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

He describes his efforts as “more akin to whittling at a piece of wood—for I am removing word after word until what remains seems to be the truth.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

County’s population has been whittling down for the last decade, with 400,000 people leaving since 2016.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

And Bryson DeChambeau was whittling away after losing five of the first seven to Fitzpatrick.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2025

“Tiller, I think Dallas might want to help you fix this porch. And maybe we ought to do some whittling tonight. Got any extra knives?”

From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech