boil down
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Synonyms for boil down
Synonyms
abstract, brief, digest, encapsulate, epitomize, outline, recap, recapitulate, reprise, sum up, summarize, synopsize, wrap up
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Cousins isn’t the same guy off-schedule, as last year proved again, and making that possible is going to boil down to fix a creaky offensive line. — Albert Breer, SI.com, "32 Notes From 32 NFL Training Camps," 22 Aug. 2019 Unfortunately, the genial, addled paraplegic doesn’t have the same kind of business acumen as the no-nonsense owner of the nearby rendering plant where deceased pets, livestock, and roadkill all end up in vats to be boiled down into tallow. — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, "Doc Talk: More moon, more Morris, more music," 18 July 2019 In the end, most discussion of reparations seems to boil down to little more than traditional tax-and-spend policies, prettified with new rationales. — Michael Tanner, National Review, "The Wrenching Reparations Question," 26 June 2019 The concerns with the Fairhope proposal appeared to boil down to distrust. — al.com, "In fast-growing Fairhope, dispute brews over conservation issues," 25 June 2019 Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor and celebrity attorney, banged a hard right turn from establishment Democratic Party politics toward Trumpian apologia late in 2017, for reasons that seem to boil down to his own personal unpleasantness. — David Roth, The New Republic, "Making sense of Donald Trump's petulant reign," 12 June 2019 Alternatives: Burn the waste or ship it away The alternative methods likely boil down to either shipping trash, by rail, elsewhere, or building a waste-to-energy plant, which usually burns trash and uses the heat to make electricity. — David Gutman, The Seattle Times, "King County’s landfill has been almost full for two decades. What happens next?," 26 Mar. 2019 Harvard’s method includes boiling down objective and subjective assessments into numerical ratings, which help guide discussions among a 40-person admissions committee about who should be admitted. — Jessica Wang, WSJ, "Breakdown of the Harvard Admissions Process," 23 Oct. 2018 That basically boils down to the equation: Arsenal + Anfield x Six = Pain x22. — SI.com, "6 Stats That Show How Unbelievably Abysmal Arsenal Have Been Against the Top Six," 23 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'boil down.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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