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Recent Examples of cut in
Harris sent the ball across the box to Suleymanov, who cut in on his left to shoot.
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Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2026
In the field of social work, that could mean a cut in human employees, assuming that activities such as client check-ins or initial levels of crisis resolution can be turned over to bots.
—Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 28 Feb. 2026
The star, who cemented her fame with a raven pixie cut in 1990's Ghost, evolved into a long hairstyle in the years since.
—Séraphine Roger, Vanity Fair, 28 Feb. 2026
When an organism carrying a gene drive mates with a wild-type organism, the CRISPR system makes a cut in the wild-type chromosome.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 27 Feb. 2026
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Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2026
In the field of social work, that could mean a cut in human employees, assuming that activities such as client check-ins or initial levels of crisis resolution can be turned over to bots.
—Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 28 Feb. 2026
The star, who cemented her fame with a raven pixie cut in 1990's Ghost, evolved into a long hairstyle in the years since.
—Séraphine Roger, Vanity Fair, 28 Feb. 2026
When an organism carrying a gene drive mates with a wild-type organism, the CRISPR system makes a cut in the wild-type chromosome.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 27 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cut in
interrupt
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One scene seems to consist only of people interrupting one other’s thoughts, skipping from talking about their family’s inherent body odor to White’s sister’s desire to get a group photo with their dad banging a gong to signify his recovery.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
25 Feb. 2026
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Tensions with Ukraine grew recently after Russian oil shipments to Hungary were interrupted; Ukraine blamed the disruption on a Russian drone strike in late January that damaged a pipeline.—
Justin Spike,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2026
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“Cut in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cut%20in. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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