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• His 2020 season with the Browns was cut short with a torn ACL.
  — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 23 July 2024
• The talks were cut short, and both sides blamed each other for the setbacks.
  — Chris Massaro, Fox News, 1 Nov. 2023
• Biel’s hair was styled in a sleek bob, and her nails were cut short, and polished black.
  — Angel Saunders, People.com, 29 Jan. 2025
• Their joy was cut short when the other team failed to cross and died in gunfire.
  — Esther Kang, People.com, 26 Dec. 2024
• The groundbreaking was moved up and the party was cut short.
  — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
• But his time in office was cut short by the turmoil of the Middle East.
  — George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
• The princess was slender, dressed in a loose T-shirt and joggers, and her dark curls were cut short.
  — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
• Now, all the charm and effort that made this series so great has been cut short.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
• Just five days later, Lisa Marie's third act was cut short.
  — Brianne Tracy, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2023
• Her visit was cut short: A group of Navajo landowners blocked the road to the canyon, protesting the ban.
  — Jack Herrera, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• His 2022 season was cut short due to a torn Achilles tendon.
  — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 30 Apr. 2023
• Patsy Cline's life and career were cut short in a plane crash six decades ago.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
• Those efforts were, in the short term, cut short by a Delaware judge.
  — Rohan Goswami, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2024
• But any plans for more gigs were cut short when Betts suffered a minor stroke in 2018.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2024
• The injury cut short one of the strongest stretches of Maye’s young career.
  — Andrew Greif, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2024
• It was cut short when Pasqualini received a phone call.
  — Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2023
• O’Rourke’s life was tragically cut short at the age of 12.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 May 2024
• There is a palpable fear that their own progress–and that of their children–will be cut short.
  — Janet Murguía, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2024
• It's been more than 16 years since Brittany McGlone’s life was cut short.
  — Corin Cesaric, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2023
• Yet that vision was cut short when the Eaton Fire started bearing down on her home.
  — Greg Norman, Fox News, 11 Jan. 2025
• But nine days before his wife and daughters were set to join him, a shooting cut short their dream.
  — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
• But their connection is cut short, leading to the group of besties trying to find him throughout the evening.
  — Lisa Stardust, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
• Julia was muscular and petite, with a sweep of black hair cut short as a boy’s.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 5 Feb. 2024
• Their island idyll is cut short by tragedy, which coincides with a cholera outbreak in the city.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2024
• Queen’s playing time was cut short in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s final.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2024
• Their journey through the mountains is cut short by a crash, which instigates a broken heart and the first song-and-dance number of the film.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2024
• At 30, his life was cut short: he was shot and killed in the woods of rural Sonoma County by a white man who claimed self-defense.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 20 Sep. 2023
• The spacecraft’s 2019 test flight had to be cut short due to a software issue that prevented docking at the ISS.
  — Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 31 July 2024
• Yet, as the minutes, weeks and months tick by, the memory of a life cut short has grown stronger in the minds of those who knew Norman as well as those who did not.
  — Ethan Ehrenhaft, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2023
• Two more attempts in June 2024 were cut short before the EVAs could even get underway due to spacesuit equipment issues.
  — Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 30 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 22 Feb 2025