paring down

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.

By paring down the original indictment, Smith has also made it more likely the case goes to trial, ever.

They also reveal a secret of the craft, namely that you can make an image very evocative by paring down its context in the right way.

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

Over many table reads, I honed the screenplay for them, paring down and furrowing deeper.