cutting it

Example Sentences

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Bass credits the program with achieving a 17.5% reduction in “street homelessness,” the number of people living in their vehicles or outside, cutting it from 33,000 to under 27,000.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

But salt being so prevalent in our food means campaigners think the responsibility for cutting it out has to lie with the people making it.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Analysts have reduced Southwest’s 2026 earnings estimates, with one cutting it from $5.05 to $3.59 per share.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

And Barrett, who works the long hospital shifts required to save people’s lives, isn’t cutting it.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

She’d been out with her new friends and was home just before the curfew, cutting it as fine as you could get.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler