cutting away
Example Sentences
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“The executive thus can neither outright abolish an agency nor incapacitate it by cutting away the personnel required to implement the agency’s statutorily-mandated duties.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2025
The network aired his comments for about two minutes before cutting away.
From New York Times • Jan. 11, 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
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
He cut into the wire as if cutting away at the lie inside himself.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
