down to size
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One way it is doing that: cutting its Medicare business down to size.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025
Can anything fill the void once those injunctions are shrunken down to size?
From Slate • Jun. 27, 2025
In Hollywood’s ongoing cheerless attempts to contest the joy of music by cutting stellar classical musicians down to size, “Maria” joins the curt parade of “Tár” and “Maestro.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2024
That might have come down to anxieties about his outsized ambitions, which prompted his enemies to try to cut him down to size.
From National Geographic • Nov. 22, 2023
And it was going to be worse at school, where every kid would feel duty bound to do his or her part in trimming the new kid down to size.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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