cut in half
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She voted for the budget last year after council members cut in half the amount of police hiring sought by Bass.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
But Thoma Bravo’s paper profits have evaporated with the post—IPO drop in SailPoint stock, which has nearly been cut in half to $12.25 a share on Friday’s close.
From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026
He believed that the developing world simply had “too many people” and calculated that the earth’s population needed to be cut in half.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
On Wednesday, Agriculture Minister Bruno Kone announced that the price paid to farmers would be cut in half in order to try and boost sales.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026
But that changed when the federal government ordered the hospitals to be desegregated: within just seven years, the black infant mortality rate had been cut in half.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
