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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flicked (off)
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The Trump administration is cutting off the huge stream of data that's been feeding the nation's largest study of women's health, which has produced a series of landmark discoveries.—
Rob Stein,
NPR,
23 Apr. 2025 -
Trump briefly cut off aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine, but resumed after Zelenskyy agreed to an immediate ceasefire, a call Putin has rebuffed.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
23 Apr. 2025
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All power has been shut off in the area, along with the gas valves on either side of the broken gas line, Hopkins said.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
23 Apr. 2025
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But now that Trump is shutting off funding, or at least threatening to, at sixty schools, Harvard’s endowment has taken on a new purpose, positioning the school to be the first bulwark against a rapidly advancing front.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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“Flicked (off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flicked%20%28off%29. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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