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cutout

[kuht-out] / ˈkʌtˌaʊt /


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Open the top the box and tape the cutout to the bottom.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

Patni commemorated Akash with a framed photograph and a life-size cutout, decorated with flowers and surrounded by scattered rose petals and lit lamps.

From Barron's Jun. 12, 2026

Her home is a shrine to Regency England; a life-size cutout of actor Colin Firth—from what many consider the best of the many renditions of “Pride & Prejudice”—stands watch over her much-ruffled bedroom.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 31, 2026

A President Reagan cardboard cutout also greeted visitors.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 9, 2025

It had pictures stuck in it, cutout pictures of fairies and witches, trolls and dragons, goblins, nymphs, and ancient trees.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

They affixed headshot cutouts of their parents from photos and placed them above paper cutouts of a wedding dress and a tuxedo.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

At the Hidden Valley headquarters in Oakland, Calif., members of the ranch team often huddle around a pizza-shaped couch, surrounded by ranch poster-covered walls, a ranch piñata and giant cutouts of bottles.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

Cardboard cutouts of photographers are stationed along the route during the Red Bull Soapbox Race in downtown Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times May 17, 2026

They’re not cardboard cutouts, exactly, but they’re blank enough slates for us to project onto.

From Slate Mar. 13, 2026

The windows are high and thin and many-paned, and decorated with cutouts made of construction paper; right now there are snowflakes, for winter.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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