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cutout

[kuht-aut] / ˈkʌtˌaʊt /


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Even the strangest of things happen for a reason, like when a life-size Celine Dion cutout goes missing and later reappears.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Open the top the box and tape the cutout to the bottom.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Patni commemorated Akash with a framed photograph and a life-size cutout, decorated with flowers and surrounded by scattered rose petals and lit lamps.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

Her home is a shrine to Regency England; a life-size cutout of actor Colin Firth—from what many consider the best of the many renditions of “Pride & Prejudice”—stands watch over her much-ruffled bedroom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

When I followed them to the mall, they stopped outside Zimmerman’s Pet Store and all thousand of them got out, holding hands and two-dimensional, like cutout accordion dolls.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

They located an original spindle and replicated it, including the complex crane cutouts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

An annual dating wrapped party, where dozens of friends gather to see her yearly stats and snack on cupcakes adorned with cutouts of her exes’ faces.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

This is my memory: it was a high-rise building in Century City, in the offices of “King of the Hill,” so there was a lot of like “King of the Hill” cutouts and stuff there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

Customers wield big Messi head cutouts, and the bar offers a cocktail dubbed the Messi Mule.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026

The Cleopatra trees stood black in the orange light, like Halloween cutouts.

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor


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