The cold reader, being a student of human nature, already has the problem narrowed down to a few areas before they even meet the person.
For me, it's a close call between several scientists which I'll try to narrow down to one.
Eventually, you narrow it down to a small set of very similar possibilities.
All my years narrowed down to a few cold sentences.
He narrowed it down to two, and they didn't have to be children.
She finally narrowed it down to a brick wall outside.
"By design they narrowed down the study population to the point where it doesn't represent the real world."
Whatever the cause, the world narrowed down to one sharp point.
We narrowed it down to three schools, and then I asked the coaches to take them both.
I kept my Sight narrowed down to just the task at hand.