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as in to skip
to fail to attend a warning that she had been cutting too many classes without valid excuses

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as in to shave
to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument when you cut the pad, make it a little smaller than the carpet

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as in to mow
to shorten the standing leafy plant cover of you need to cut the lawn very soon—before it becomes a jungle

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as in to intersect
to divide by passing through or across a long mountain range virtually cuts that country in half

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cut

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noun

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as in slice
a piece that has been separated from the whole by cutting choose cuts of meat that have very little visible fat

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as in inch
an individual part of a process, series, or ranking one of the new recruits is a cut above the rest in intelligence

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as in share
something belonging to, due to, or contributed by an individual member of a group received my cut of the profits from the garage sale

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cut

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adjective

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Recent Examples of cut
Verb
During that same period, the company cut 3,000 jobs. Lindsay Owens, Time, 22 May 2025 The president also floated cutting Chinese tariffs to 80%. Grace Miserocchi, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2025
Noun
Harvard community rallies despite Trump funding cuts. Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2025 The sweeping package of tax cuts, Medicaid reform and immigration spending delivers on many of the president's domestic campaign promises. John Parkinson, ABC News, 22 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for cut
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cut
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  • Everyone, even the children, have scars from where the corners of their mouths have been slit up into their cheeks, Joker-style.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 27 Apr. 2025
  • There are no marks on the bones directly attributable to a cause of death, Green said, and the Romans typically killed their sacrifices by slitting their throats or through drowning.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
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  • The Times also soft-pedaled the introduction of the pope’s lineage by skipping a generation and attributing his Blackness to his maternal grandparents, Joseph and Louise Martínez.
    Rebecca R. Bibbs, Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2025
  • Instead of a college deferring an Early Decision applicant to the Regular Decision round, only to then waitlist them (this unfortunately happens), some schools are skipping the deferral and sending them directly to the waitlist.
    Brennan Barnard, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
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  • He is isolated in Sweden — far away from coaching candidates, far away from Penguins assistant GM Jason Spezza — left to find his next coach on a schedule six hours ahead of Eastern Time.
    Josh Yohe, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • Extreme anxiety and extreme depression is isolating.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 18 May 2025
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  • Fred’s highlight this season has been shaving his beard.
    Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 23 May 2025
  • Inside the prison, they were forced to kneel as their heads were shaved by guards.
    Nidia Cavazos, CBS News, 23 May 2025
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  • Eufy officially claims the E18 can mow for 90 to 110 minutes and cover about 1,076 to 1,614 square feet (or 100 to 150 square meters) on a single charge, which seems accurate (if not low) based on my testing.
    Tyler Hayes, PC Magazine, 10 May 2025
  • Main Street turns into a different kind of valley, one that funnels them into a line straight toward the four men holding flame throwers, ready to mow them down.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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  • Pureeing the fresh strawberries gives the lemonade body, but also ensures the strawberry flavor isn’t diluted.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 15 May 2025
  • This urine can simply be scattered around the ground, diluted into a fertilizer or disposed of in a toilet back home, depending on the situation.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 May 2025
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  • In her public rhetoric, mostly on social media and right-wing media appearances, Lake has veered between promising to restore the networks to their historic mission and pledging to demolish them.
    David Folkenflik, NPR, 22 May 2025
  • However, warm skin tones can veer on the more coral side of the red spectrum, while cool skin tones might find blue-toned reds more flattering.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 21 May 2025
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  • Boulders intersect the first section of path as a metaphor for the journey of an individual out of homelessness onto a healthier and happier life course.
    Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • And so, amid the noise and smoke of the culture wars, Cobb’s quaintly reactionary act intersected with vituperative Trumpian revanchism, and Cobb became a conservative TV personality.
    Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 19 May 2025

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“Cut.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cut. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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