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as in to slit
to penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife)
I cut my hand on a piece of broken glass
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as in to skip
to fail to attend
a warning that she had been cutting too many classes without valid excuses
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as in to isolate
to deliberately ignore or treat rudely
the snobbish lady cut anyone who didn't meet her standards of wealth and social standing
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as in to shave
to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument
when you cut the pad, make it a little smaller than the carpet
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as in to dilute
to alter (something) for the worse with the addition of foreign or lower-grade substances
the fruit juice was so cut with water that it was barely a fruit-flavored drink
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as in to veer
to depart abruptly from a straight line or course
cut towards the goal, eluding a defender
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as in to intersect
to divide by passing through or across
a long mountain range virtually cuts that country in half
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as in to analyze
to identify and examine the basic elements or parts of (something) especially for discovering interrelationships
whichever way you cut it, we won't be seeing any profits from the business for at least three years
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as in share
something belonging to, due to, or contributed by an individual member of a group
received my cut of the profits from the garage sale
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as in haircut
a style or arrangement of hair
she decided she needed a new cut after wearing her hair the same way for years
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as in insult
an act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings
completely ignoring her was the unkindest cut of all
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as in reduced
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Recent Examples of cut
Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2024
Trump appointed Musk to co-lead a group that’s not yet formed, but will be tasked with finding ways to cut regulations, personnel and budgets.
—Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 22 Dec. 2024
Peter Green, Quartz, 30 Dec. 2024
During the altercation, an ECU player shoved an NC State player from behind, and the NC State player’s helmet hit the ref in the face, causing the cut.
—Chris Vannini, The Athletic, 28 Dec. 2024
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Then it’s rinsed, milled, aerated, and finally passed through a machine that cuts the resulting masa dough into perfect tortillas and griddles them.
—Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2024
Trump appointed Musk to co-lead a group that’s not yet formed, but will be tasked with finding ways to cut regulations, personnel and budgets.
—Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 22 Dec. 2024
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That’s a tall order for anyone, and the contradictory demands of tax cuts, deficit reduction, tariffs, and economic growth are probably impossible to balance.
—Peter Green, Quartz, 30 Dec. 2024
During the altercation, an ECU player shoved an NC State player from behind, and the NC State player’s helmet hit the ref in the face, causing the cut.
—Chris Vannini, The Athletic, 28 Dec. 2024
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The Massachusetts mom accused of killing her three young children before slitting her wrists and jumping out of a second-story window in an attempt to take her own life is planning to seek an insanity defense, court records show.KC Baker, People.com, 18 Dec. 2024
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The garlic and coriander mustn’t burn, the broth mustn’t boil, and the ladle should slit through a body that is just silky enough.Kristina Kasparian, Longreads, 12 Nov. 2024
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While this gross page count will include a small percentage of blank and skipped pages that will be subtracted in the National Archives’ final tally, the overall picture remains unchanged.Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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The band is an explosion of coordinated energy, with far more activity than the average marching band as its members skip, high kick and sashay, all while playing a tune.Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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His statements — including Holocaust denial, racist denunciations of Muslims and immigrants, and his 1987 proposal to forcibly isolate people with AIDS in special facilities — shocked his critics and strained his political alliances.Thomas Adamson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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This was meant to isolate the effect of processing.Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
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While Stanley snoozed, the vet checked his ears, teeth and nails, then shaved a circle, the size of a quarter, on his throat.Lane Degregory, Orlando Sentinel, 31 Dec. 2024
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The original plans for the development called for a mix of up to 5,700 affordable and market rate apartments, and that has since been shaved down to 1,507 units in the case of a casino and resort, and 2,877 in the case of a conference center.James Ferrari, New York Daily News, 29 Dec. 2024
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Two easy ways to ensure the grass is mowed properly is, according to Cannon, to know the turf type and how much to mow and use a sharp mower blade to avoid tears or rips, which are basically open wounds on the plant.Lauren David, Southern Living, 27 Dec. 2024
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Two weeks later, on June 16, Jelly Roll excitedly called Ray with a proposition as the Nashville area native, songwriter and construction company owner was on his tractor mowing the grass on his 30-acre property in Dickson, Tennessee, an hour west of Music City.Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 19 Nov. 2024
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Owners can also use a small amount of cat-safe, mild dish soap diluted with water to gently clean the affected area, although they are advised to avoid harsh chemicals or essential oils.Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
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Noise: Irrelevant or erroneous data can dilute meaningful insights and confuse models.Max (Chong) Li, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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In the dash camera video, the man dressed as Santa can be seen veering through multiple lanes of traffic.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
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In Magdeburg, Germany, on Friday, a driver veered his car into crowds of people at a Christmas market, resulting in fatalities and dozens of injuries.Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 20 Dec. 2024
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Contextualizing Bob Marley Bob Marley’s life and music intersected with Pan-Africanism, the Rastafari movement, and post-colonial politics around the globe.JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 8 Jan. 2025
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One set of the sauropod tracks intersects with those of the Megalosaurus.Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Cut.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cut. Accessed 12 Jan. 2025.
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