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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If your team is afraid to disagree, if failure is punished, if new ideas die in PowerPoint—your culture needs rewiring.—
Bill Fischer,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2025
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At some point during our new Gilded Age, as the United States and the world have become more unequal, did Prince Charming die?—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
21 June 2025
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Without any consequences, this autocratic politician will continue to push the limits of his authority beyond the breaking point until someone forces him to stop.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
29 June 2025
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The state will become the second following Utah to stop public utilities from fluoridating water.—
Kairi Lowery,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 June 2025
Verb
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The big exited Barclays Center that night in a walking boot and stayed in New York Friday to undergo further imaging and evaluation while the team traveled to Seattle to begin a four-game roadtrip.—
Fiifi Frimpong,
New York Daily News,
22 June 2025
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Its powered sliding door can open and close on its own so a passenger doesn’t need to turn around and shut it after exiting.—
Christiaan Hetzner,
Fortune,
21 June 2025
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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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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's panel of vaccine advisers voted Thursday in their first official move after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired the committee's previous experts and replaced them with his own picks.—
Nicole Brown Chau,
CBS News,
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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Though no polling stations have reported a loss of power yet, Vincent Ignazio, deputy executive director of the Elections Board, told City & State Monday that ballot scanners were equipped with backup batteries capable of lasting several hours should an outage occur.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
25 June 2025
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Phoenix was unable to propel itself back to the NBA Finals, losing in the Western Conference semifinals during the 2022-23 season, being ousted in the first round in the 2023-24 season and failing to even make the postseason this year.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
23 June 2025
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The rap producer has been incarcerated at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center since his September arrest, having failed to persuade multiple judges to release him to house arrest on a $50 million bond.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
23 June 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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Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei himself is thought to be operating from an underground bunker and has ceased communicating electronically, delaying his ability to guide the rest of the regime’s leaders.—
Dana Stroul,
Foreign Affairs,
23 June 2025
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And even the great man had to battle at times for a dollar before departing to take Ferrari's moola.—
Alex Kalinauckas,
New York Times,
20 June 2025
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Macron and Trump exchanged barbs earlier in the week after Trump departed the G7 summit early as the conflict between Iran and Israel mounted.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
20 June 2025
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“Cut out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cut%20out. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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