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
Though the deals appear gargantuan, experts say financial realities will cut them down to size.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2025
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
Where Miss Love had been talking to me like I was a man, now she had cut me back down to size.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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