WINNOWED Synonyms: 123 Similar and Opposite Words

winnowed

verb

past tense of winnow

as in culled

to remove less desirable choices from a group or list They winnowed the pool of applicants down to a few of the strongest candidates. I tried to winnow out the options that weren't a good value for the price.

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There are also far too many songs in A Complete Unknown—most are profoundly affecting, but a few ought to have been strategically trimmed.

Radhika Seth, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2024
The hope is that NASA will use its limited budget to continue to fund this kind of research, but the worry is that as costs get trimmed with a focus on human exploration of the Moon and Mars, work that doesn’t have an obvious and immediate practical application will fall by the wayside.

Georgina Torbet, The Verge, 7 Dec. 2024

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