cuts off

present tense third-person singular of cut off

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Recent Examples of cuts off However, the closure of the National Tunnel cuts off all travelers at the midpoint. Megan Shinn, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026 Grylls cuts off the animal’s tongue with a knife and boils it over a campfire. Erin Jensen, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2026 Remote work cuts off young workers from much of that organic mentoring. Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2026 Architects must build a central kill switch that instantly cuts off the AI if an anomaly occurs. Naveen Jayaram, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026 Becoming an upper-middle-income country also cuts off development funding from organizations like the World Bank. Angelica Ang, Fortune, 3 July 2026 But a wartime spike in energy prices has pushed rate cuts off the table for now. Scott Horsley, NPR, 17 June 2026 Currently, Screen Time often acts up and just cuts off access to all apps, whether it’s supposed to or not. Tyler Hayes, PC Magazine, 9 June 2026 As the rocket’s core stage cuts off, the zero G indicator will begin to float, identifying the moment when the crew is officially in space. Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cuts off
Verb
  • Trusted by professional barbers, Green Stix stops shaving nicks and minor cuts in seconds.
    ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026
  • But when a generation stops believing that an unjust rule has legitimacy, coercion becomes increasingly expensive.
    Pegah Banihashemi, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Anybody can do it once—consistency is what separates good from great players.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Save to wishlist Grey Area Róhe has a strong offering of tailoring and suiting and I was instantly drawn to these grey separates.
    Madeline Fass, Vogue, 14 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The turf needs this lead time to absorb the nutrients before growth ceases in winter.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Melting then ceases, leaving a thin crust on the surface of the fragment.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Rather than chart her full life, the Hindi-language film, starring Sneha Kumari in the title role, isolates a single 48-hour standoff in which 2,000 armed police and paramilitary personnel surrounded a village to capture her, then 17 years old.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The camera isolates everyone’s hands, the plating, and the micro-adjustments.
    Henry Metz, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • When a relationship ends, language is as much of a casualty as love.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Aikman’s five-year, $90 million contract with ESPN ends after the Super Bowl.
    Andrew Marchand, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • This halts the nuclear fusion process — which involves converting that hydrogen to helium — leading to the stars collapsing and shedding their outer layers to become a white dwarf with around the mass of the sun crammed into the width of Earth.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Nothing halts a celebration faster than having a bottle of wine to open but only having a broken wine opener or none at all.
    Mariette Williams, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • This is the most significant ice calving event (where ice breaks off of a glacier) seen in the Arctic since 2020.
    Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2026
  • According to the reports, the malfunctions occurred during the ride's signature ‘tilt' portion, where the segment of track containing the ride vehicle breaks off completely and tilts forward 45 degrees before reconnecting to another piece of track at a 90-degree angle to the ground below.
    Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
Verb
  • If power to the facility cuts out, the physics of liquid metal provides passive cooling.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Others are keeping data analog longer, since early digitization is expensive and skipping it for certain operations cuts out a major power drain.
    David Schie, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

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“Cuts off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cuts%20off. Accessed 22 Sep. 2026.

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