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an explanation or description accompanying a pictorial illustration
the cutline wrongly identified the people in the photo
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Ross Chastain, Tyler Reddick, Bubba Wallace, and Austin Cindric, who found themselves below the cutline before the race, won't be advancing further.
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Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
At that point the club was six games above the playoff cutline and had just polished off an 11-7 win at Fenway Park over the Cleveland Guardians, who were a game below .500 and by all accounts were out of the hunt.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
DeChambeau shot 7-over 77 to finish the two days at 10 over — three shots off the cutline.
—Apress, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2025
DeChambeau shot a 7-over 77 to put him at 10-over through the first two days of golf’s third major of the year, a few shots more than the cutline that winnows the field before the third and fourth rounds.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 13 June 2025
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Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
At that point the club was six games above the playoff cutline and had just polished off an 11-7 win at Fenway Park over the Cleveland Guardians, who were a game below .500 and by all accounts were out of the hunt.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
DeChambeau shot 7-over 77 to finish the two days at 10 over — three shots off the cutline.
—Apress, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2025
DeChambeau shot a 7-over 77 to put him at 10-over through the first two days of golf’s third major of the year, a few shots more than the cutline that winnows the field before the third and fourth rounds.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 13 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cutline
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His videos pull in tight on his face to underline an expression and deploy strange fonts so that an Instagram Reel’s usually soulless captions instead help to bolster and magnify his material.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2026
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All of the information about this reward is in the caption below.—
Jack Dunn,
Variety,
24 Feb. 2026
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“Cutline.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cutline. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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