cutting away

Example Sentences

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With the new economic measures, the premier pledged to shift Japan's economy, which has tended to focus on cost cutting, away from such practices.

From Reuters • Sep. 25, 2023

Demme closes in on Weymouth playing two notes in a song before cutting away to a guitar solo.

From Salon • Sep. 21, 2023

Circuit Court of Appeals last week significantly whittled down that order, eliminating some defendants and cutting away language that prohibited mere encouragement of content changes.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2023

Najeebah Al-Ghadban is a collage artist who, through the cutting away or transfiguration of images, focuses on how much we reveal or conceal about our internal worlds.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2023

But she was tired of cell culture, tired of meticulously cutting away dead tissue like gristle from a steak, tired of having cells die after hours of work.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot