cut one

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Samar shares the popular view that for every senior official "they've reportedly assigned three to seven successors. Like a hydra - you cut one head off, another grows back. They won't surrender any time soon."

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

Welsh rugby's governing body has announced it will cut one professional team by 2027.

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2025

Instead of always cutting the same location, those Cas9 proteins would sometimes make their cut one or two bases further along the DNA sequence.

From Science Daily • Oct. 10, 2025

Dan Burton has trapped hundreds of wild pigs for clients of his wildlife control company in Salinas, but even he was startled when he cut one of them open and found blue meat inside.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2025

As in: If JB hadn’t been acting so silly and playing around, he would have cut one lock instead of five from my head and avoided this calamity.

From "The Crossover" by Kwame Alexander