cut it
Example Sentences
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Instead of having to cut it all at once, it is easing back output in stages, hoping to avoid the more costly step of shutting fields and later spending weeks or months bringing them back.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
The smugness, arrogance and hubris in this city is so thick you could cut it with a knife.
From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026
Perhaps that is the kind of "incremental change" the PM was referring to in his Monday speech that will no longer "cut it".
From BBC • May 11, 2026
Fans and air conditioners won’t cut it anymore.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
The dad yelled at him to cut it out, that he needed to learn his lesson.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
