cut-throat

Example Sentences

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“The music business is a business filled with sharks and cut throat people,” the caption read.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2020

The author doesn't address whether cut throat or generous behavior is actually good for society, or how one behavior or the other is economically beneficial in the real world.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2014

“I think that it’s a real cut throat environment that we come from,” Sherman said.

From Washington Times • Sep. 3, 2014

They have and football is very cut throat - it is a winning business.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2014

It is also liable to be divided in wounds of the submaxillary region—for example, in cut throat, or during the operation for ligation of the lingual artery, or the removal of diseased lymph glands.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander