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
“The tallest poppy has to get cut down. There’s a lot of eyes on me, so it’s like, ‘Let’s cut this girl down to size.’
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 29, 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
Cat had been puffed up from anger, but Harriet’s words shrank her down to size.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
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