1
as in to die
to stop functioning
the engine abruptly cut out
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2
as in to stop
to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end
now cut that out, or I'm turning this car around!
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3
as in to exit
to leave a place often for another
after a few minutes of their brainless conversation I was ready to cut out
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as in capable
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Recent Examples of cut out
Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Time is up for Darwin Nunez, who has had three seasons at the club and failed to prove that he’s cut out to lead the line.
—Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 22 June 2025
Loss of vision: A portion of your visual field is cut out, as if a curtain came down over it, or a piece is missing from one side.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 18 June 2025
Sometimes the best advice is the simples: Eat real food; cut out the harmful foods; and let your body do the rest.
—Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
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Adjective
And that somewhere may well turn out to be a field cut out of a rain forest.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Time is up for Darwin Nunez, who has had three seasons at the club and failed to prove that he’s cut out to lead the line.
—Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 22 June 2025
Loss of vision: A portion of your visual field is cut out, as if a curtain came down over it, or a piece is missing from one side.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 18 June 2025
Sometimes the best advice is the simples: Eat real food; cut out the harmful foods; and let your body do the rest.
—Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cut out
Verb
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But every time one expression of faith dies, a new one seems to rise up offering something more in keeping with the needs of the era.—
Belinda Luscombe,
Time,
1 July 2025
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His great uncle died during the famine in Greece that was brought on by the Nazi occupation and that wiped out at least 300,000 people.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
1 July 2025
Verb
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Paul Goldschmidt had one of just three Yankees hits in Saturday’s 7-0 loss to the A’s, but that didn’t stop him from sharing some self-depreciation after the game.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
29 June 2025
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Trying to stop the runaway, Jeff was knocked to the concrete and sustained a fractured skull and other life-threatening injuries that left him in a coma for weeks.—
Neil Milbert,
Chicago Tribune,
29 June 2025
Verb
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These hiking physical human augmentation wearables are exiting the Trough of Disillusionment, led by three factors that work in their favor: low price, influencer content, and public demonstrations.—
Borislav "Bobby" Marinov,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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In February, Wells Fargo provided advance notice to employees about the bank’s decision to exit the chief operating office global operations in the city, the bank said in a June 24 notice to the state and Winston-Salem Mayor J. Allen Joines.—
Catherine Muccigrosso,
Charlotte Observer,
30 June 2025
Verb
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Before the referee had even dropped the whistle from his mouth, Erling Haaland galloped onto the pitch with a coach clearly tasked with readying him to replace Omar Marmoush at the break.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
27 June 2025
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René Lacoste, for example, is credited as the inventor of the short-sleeved piqué polo, which came to replace the traditional tennis whites among more serious players.—
Brett F. Braley-Palko,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
Adjective
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None of its systems would have been capable of producing this nanosecond signal.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
25 June 2025
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Last month, Florida officials submitted a 37-page immigration enforcement plan to the federal government that called for detention centers in the south-central and northeastern regions of the state capable of holding 10,000 people.—
Skyler Swisher,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 June 2025
Verb
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Lin, its inventor, was born in 1895 in southern China during the tail end of a failing Qing dynasty.—
Emily Feng,
NPR,
5 July 2025
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According to court documents obtained by the Charlotte Observer, the office found the commission failed to provide the bar with sufficient notice within five days of a April 30 deadline as required by the new statute before canceling the business’s ABC permits.—
Nora O’Neill
July 5,
Charlotte Observer,
5 July 2025
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Seven of the health facilities that Save the Children had supported in the region have fully closed, and 20 more have partly ceased operations.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
24 June 2025
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In 2021, Iran revealed its plan for taking enrichment from 20% to 60%, and soon afterward ceased to provide any further details on its fuel-making program.—
Scott Montgomery,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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Over time, many of the drivers of their upside, from George Springer to Carlos Correa to Gerrit Cole to Justin Verlander to Tucker and Bregman, departed.—
Tony Blengino,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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The criminal complaint alleges that she was captured on surveillance footage carrying a black backpack entering the locker room area, appearing to take a photo of the vicinity, and departing without the backpack.—
Mike Brest,
The Washington Examiner,
1 July 2025
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“Cut out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cut%20out. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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