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cutoff

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noun

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Recent Examples of cut off
Verb
Tomato plants can be pulled from the garden soil or cut off at the soil level to allow the root system to slowly degrade in the soil. Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025 The rewards can be huge, as can the risks, and Anisimova was seeking the lines with full cuts off both sides. Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
Tom’s original draft was set in 1993, and for me, the cutoff was 9/11 and CCTV. Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025 After that, fertility clinics may have age cutoffs for those who want to use their own eggs because, realistically, the chances getting pregnant are so small, there’re not feasible, Choi says. Elizabeth Yuko, Flow Space, 2 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cut off
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cut off
Verb
  • Nothing better than putting down the top and driving beautiful roads just after the rain stops and the air is powerfully charged by the nearby ocean, scrubbed clean.
    Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • In fact, water levels at Lake Powell, one of the main water storage reservoirs for the Colorado River Basin, could fall low enough to stop hydropower generation at the reservoir by December 2026, according to the NOAA report.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But that isn’t separating Texans from their steaks.
    Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Gray loves Catrice Hyper Lash Mascara, which separates lashes for definition, length, volume, and curl.
    Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Or that cessation triggers withdrawal symptoms—including pain, fever, and diarrhea—similar to those faced by opioid abusers.
    Kevin Sabet, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The Senate bill is opposed by multiple smoking cessation groups, who argued that the Senate version lacked teeth to curb youth vaping.
    Vivian Jones, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • At the end of 2024, SHR ceased operations, paving the way for the rise of the Haas Factory Team.
    Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Sep. 2025
  • In turn, matchups between strong Group of 5 teams and hefty pocketbooks will cease to exist.
    Noah White, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, the headphones, meant to unify the audience in a shared soundscape, instead isolate viewers into their glowing silos, which feels like an ironic choice for a show supposedly about communal grief.
    David Hochman, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The procedure typically begins with local anesthesia and placement of a rubber dam to isolate the tooth.
    Daryl Austin, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Maybe — just maybe — the Jets showed enough to believe that this sort of ending won’t happen as often anymore.
    Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • No easy fixes and no tidy endings here.
    The Know, Denver Post, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Election laws are set at the state level, meaning that any order from the president seeking to end the voting option would likely be met with legal challenges.
    Hailey Bullis, The Washington Examiner, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Daylight saving time ends (slightly) earlier in 2025.
    Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The complaint also seeks the halt of all work on the project, pending the investigation the petition seeks.
    Penny Weaver, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Instantly, traffic came to a halt on the busy corridor in Everett.
    Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025

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“Cut off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cut%20off. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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