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Because of budget trims, you were tasked with having to slim the cast down and scale back screen time for some veteran cast members.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 6, 2025

One more day to cast down the mighty, lift up the lowly and send the rich away.

From Salon Aug. 27, 2023

"I see," Songmi says, her eyes cast down.

From BBC Apr. 6, 2023

Instead of clothes, she was wrapped in a towel, eyes cast down in a vacant stare, a photo taken during the visit shows.

From Seattle Times Dec. 20, 2021

We had panes of smoked glass to peer through; and, for more precise accuracy, a refracting telescope trained upon a piece of paper, so that the image was cast down upon it.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson




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