How to Use cord-cutting in a Sentence
cord-cutting
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Or maybe not, in this cord-cutting, streaming world.
—Amanda Mull, Bloomberg, 20 Apr. 2026
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Being down two percent in a cord-cutting and cord-never world is a blip.
—Richard Deitsch, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
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Wasn’t cord-cutting supposed to be cheaper?
—Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
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Having second thoughts about cord-cutting, but not ready to jump back into that kind of commitment?
—Reece Rogers, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2024
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Revenues for regional sports networks have dropped this decade amidst cord-cutting and the rise of streaming.
—Evan Drellich, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
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The cord-cutting has gotten so rampant that Charter has thrown up its hands and surrendered.
—Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
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But it’s widely expected the spinoff company will need to find a dance partner to make it through the world of cord-cutting.
—Matt Egan, CNN, 21 Nov. 2024
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Tune-in over the years has continued to defy gravity despite cord-cutting.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 17 Apr. 2025
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These days, however, cord-cutting has turned much of cable into dead networks walking.
—David Bloom, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
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Subconscious signals prompt an abrupt cord-cutting as the moon and Uranus harmonize!
—Usa Today, USA Today, 14 June 2025
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Linear television is in deep trouble because of streaming and because of cord-cutting.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 14 July 2026
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Revenue from cable and satellite subscribers is declining as cord-cutting continues at a steady pace each year.
—Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
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What if cord-cutting accelerates?
—Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2026
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In streaming, reality has gained more traction of late as cord-cutting continues and viewer habit evolves.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 18 Nov. 2025
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Discovery sports platform has been touted as a game-changer in a pay TV market hit by cord-cutting.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 May 2024
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Zaslav is undoubtedly in a panic about the future of cable news, which looks bleak because so many people are cord-cutting.
—Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 17 July 2023
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Paramount also argued that cord-cutting is eroding the leverage of all cable channel owners.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 16 July 2026
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Regional sports networks, which have long carried the bulk of baseball broadcasts, are struggling because of cord-cutting.
—Evan Drellich, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
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That's a strategy shift designed to get ahead of the cord-cutting that has dented Showtime's linear subscriber base.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
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Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone whose attempts at cord-cutting have proven full of trip wires.
—Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
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But in our current era of cord-cutting, social media platforms have become the go-to vehicle for helping comics to connect with their fans.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2025
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There’s basically no cord-cutting allowed with the Licence Fee.
—Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 10 Nov. 2025
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Disney’s stock price has recently tumbled, under pressure from ongoing cord-cutting and the high cost of streaming.
—Kristin Broughton, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2023
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Adding to its challenges, the overall audience for cable TV keeps shrinking every year amid cord-cutting.
—Isabella Simonetti, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2023
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The note follows years worth of cord-cutting, which is expected to continue, affecting revenues for the cable news network.
—Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2024
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Along with streaming, the show’s linear ratings held up well even as cord-cutting eroded the overall footprint of cable TV.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 8 May 2026
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A lot has happened in the intervening two decades and the companies are experiencing major stress due to cord-cutting.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2024
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But now there will be far less pressure to find ways to prop up struggling assets or convince Wall Street that cord-cutting is really not a big problem.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 9 Aug. 2024
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The late-night broadcast TV landscape has been upended by the rise of cord-cutting and streaming alternatives.
—Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2024
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Cable news remains highly profitable, but cord-cutting is slowly depriving them of the subscriber fees that have sustained the businesses for decades.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
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