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The reason for repeatedly doing so isn’t ever made clear and feels as jarring as suddenly cutting away from a fight scene or a soliloquy.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 7, 2024

The somber convoys of hearses and relatives crossed much of the battered Acapulco en route to the cemetery, passing ransacked stores, streets strewn with debris and soldiers cutting away fallen trees.

From Seattle Times Oct. 30, 2023

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

From Salon Sep. 21, 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

The nurse was removing the head bandage, and the sister was cutting away the soldiers trousers.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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