BOILED DOWN Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

boiled down

verb

past tense of boil down

as in summarized

to make into a short statement of the main points (as of a report) the discussion of the problem can be boiled down to a couple of critical points

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Recent Examples of boiled down Advertisement Amid efforts by both campaigns to push policy ideas like tax cuts and education reform, the ad war has boiled down to attacks portraying Ramaswamy as a conman and Acton as a drunk. — Philip Elliott, Time, 19 Oct. 2026 One boiled down the issue much more than what voters will see on the ballot; one summarized it, and another had respondents read the full text of the language that will appear on the ballot. — Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2026 The Charter Reform Commission’s recommendations have been boiled down to six charter amendments. — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026 The Emmy winner said his purpose in the movie boiled down to just running around. — Zack Sharf, Variety, 28 Sep. 2026 Presumably, his unclear methodology boiled down to randomly sampling primes and dividing each from RSA-260 until one of them divided evenly. — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2026 His issues mainly get boiled down to desperately needing to masturbate. — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026 The fact is, much of our financial lives can be boiled down to a few big decisions. — Bydoug Ashburn, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Aug. 2026 These toads would be boiled down in billycans to produce a sludgy brew, which the hippies purportedly drank. — Kimon De Greef, Longreads, 4 Aug. 2026

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The note summarized a cybercrime campaign in which three open-source AI agents allegedly worked together to breach at least 27 organizations and take more than 600,000 credit card records from two of them.

— Joshua Hong, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
Each story gets summarized into a sentence or two accompanied by a link to the source for those seeking more information.

— Joel Feder, The Drive, 14 Oct. 2026

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The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center has outlined a marginal (Level 1 out of 5) risk in an area that includes Phoenix and Tucson.

— Jamie Ross, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2026
Musk previously outlined plans to send Tesla’s Optimus robots to the planet aboard SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft.

— Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 21 Oct. 2026

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