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cut-back

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adjective

cutback

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noun

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of cut back
Verb
The United States, Britain, and the European Union have cut back donations. Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Mar. 2025 At the same time, Western governments are cutting back on aid spending, in part to use in defense budgets. arkansasonline.com, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
These government efficiency measures reflect a wider context of fiscal tightening that affects various federal programs, including Social Security. O'Malley highlighted the consequences of these cutbacks in a series of X (formerly Twitter) posts on Friday. Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025 The cutbacks could have severe, sweeping economic consequences for American farmers and consumers alike. Suzy Khimm, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cut back
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cut back
Verb
  • Derrin claims Farley would also shave and put his body hair on people and their food.
    David Matthews, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Revisited epic, and its power is undiminished even though Dylan shaved off some of the latter verses.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Over the years, the Legislature also imposed an expiration date for petition signatures and then shortened its lifespan from eight years to four years to two years.
    Jeffrey Schweers, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Employees must be given 60 days' notice of their end date, unless OPM grants a waiver to shorten that period to 30 days.
    Stephen Fowler, NPR, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Moreover, Ontario’s electricity grid frequently produces surplus power; export markets are essential to avoid costly waste or curtailment.
    Ali Hoss, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Musk has already moved forward with major cuts, including sweeping workforce reductions, the curtailment of government operations and purges of entire agencies.
    Nathan Meyers, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Pitino pulled star wing RJ Luis out of the lineup after making two free throws to cut Arkansas’ lead to two points with less than five minutes to play.
    Brendan Quinn, The Athletic, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Will cutting sustainability contribute to losing trust with employees, consumers, and communities?
    Paul Klein, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • An abbreviated Season 7 will cap The Conners’ run at 112 episodes.
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The first is one The Acolyte already tackled, albeit in an abbreviated way: What if the Jedi weren’t always virtuous, what if people with Force abilities aren’t so easily slotted into good or evil, and what if this society’s enshrinement of them is a massive cover-up?
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The staff reductions are the first step in shutting down the 46-year-old agency, McMahon has said.
    Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 22 Mar. 2025
  • All of those staffers were laid off in the recent federal workforce reductions.
    Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The danger was obvious at Villa Park, but Justin did a better job of heading the danger away against Wolverhampton Wanderers at King Power Stadium just before Christmas… … until Wolves gathered up the second ball and Nelson Semedo clipped another high ball back into the box.
    Rob Tanner, The Athletic, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Also new for the season are leather goods, which range from sunglass carriers to pencil cases, all with the same D-shaped ring that allows them to be clipped onto a lanyard — for the sake of practicality as much as safety on the go.
    Lily Templeton, WWD, 12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • That's the abridged version of the tricky nature of prosecuting a murder case without a body.
    Fox News, Fox News, 17 Jan. 2023
  • On Friday, Burrows, R-Lubbock, made public his request to Uvalde District Attorney Christina Mitchell Busbee for an abridged video from a school hallway camera to be released.
    Dallas News, Dallas News, 11 July 2022

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“Cut back.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cut%20back. Accessed 30 Mar. 2025.

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