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cut-up



cut up


VERB
chop, mince
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
be serious


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As for toppings, I like to add more bananas, preferably barely ripe or ripe, along with cut-up strawberries, slivered almonds and a drizzle of chocolate syrup.

From Salon Jun. 20, 2026

After Porkchop swam off, several aquarium staffers gathered trash from the river, including roughly 20 golf balls, a Volkswagen car emblem, cut-up credit card, teal plastic line, a bottle cap.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 27, 2026

Anytime you start using a cut-up photograph, you’ve got problems with it.

From Slate May 1, 2024

“I have cut-up oranges, limes, lemons, because it adds color and texture to the bar,” she said.

From Seattle Times Apr. 29, 2024

We feed pure meat to the sled dogs—well, all dogs, as far as that goes, cut-up chunks of bloody beef heart.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen

It allows for harsh water cutbacks if deemed necessary, potentially requiring California, Arizona and Nevada to cut up to 3 million acre-feet per year — up to 40% of the combined allotments.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Ulster University has recently announced plans to cut up to 450 jobs.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

Volkswagen’s stock is on track to hit a 15-year low after reports the German car maker will cut up to 100,000 jobs.

From MarketWatch Jun. 29, 2026

They diagrammed it for their BP sponsors as a big triangle beneath the rising line of future carbon emissions, what Socolow recalls describing as a “wedge,” cut up into equal-sized slices.

From Salon Jun. 26, 2026

Then I got the butchering knives out and we went together into the snow field and cut up the cow.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier




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