as in cutting
to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument
pared the stray branches on the tree
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Recent Examples of paring
New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2025
Kennedy tangled with lawmakers on everything from COVID-19, to his paring-back of access to vaccines and his claims about vaccine injuries.
—Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 4 Sep. 2025
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2025
Proenza Schouler stripped it back, paring the print down to a tri-colored diamond check and elevating it through a wrap silhouette.
—Minty Mellon, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2025
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Noun
That's going to take some type of outward expansion module or paring back of standard features.
—Verb
The company began paring back its exclusive podcast deals in 2023.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for paring
Noun
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In a new interview on comedian Jay Mohr's Mohr Stories podcast, Gibbons claimed shaving brand Gillette once offered him and Hill, who died in 2021, $1 million each to shave their iconic beards for a commercial.—
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The modern equivalent isn’t literal coin shaving.—
Verb
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The president argued that inflation was already low enough to start cutting rates.—
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Trump has repeatedly blasted Powell for the Fed not cutting interest rates as much and as quickly as the president has demanded since entering the White House in January 2025.—
Noun
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And then there is the guilty past alluded to in those clippings, the memory of which frequently strikes her down with debilitating pain and nausea.—
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Officers who went to Sellers’s house found a collection of newspaper clippings from the time frame in which Lee was found dead.—
Verb
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Trailing most of the game, Dallas couldn't get a fourth-quarter stop after trimming the deficit to three points with 10 minutes remaining.—
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That’s in part by trimming the approval process.—
Noun
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Jeff Clanagan painted a picture of a landscape in which movie stardom is no longer protected by traditional channels, as attention splinters across platforms and audiences fragment.—
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The paper also prevents wear and tear on the wood surface and keeps small splinters from snagging delicate clothing.—
Noun
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Here, a sliver of orangey-red pops against a cool-toned ruby hue.—
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Like these forerunners, the pleasures of Knight’s A Thousand Blows, which premiered all six episodes of its second season on Hulu Friday, lies in looking back on that thin sliver of time, about 15 years ago, when anachronistic old-timey crime was in vogue.—
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“Paring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paring. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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