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cutaway

[kuht-uh-way] / ˈkʌt əˌweɪ /


NOUN
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As for the clapping paws, Pizzello said a member of the crew was also helping make that memorable cutaway happen.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2024

In their mind, every TV cutaway, photograph or mention of Swift's name diverts praise from Mahomes, the NFL's offensive player of the year Christian McCaffrey and the rest of the stars on the field.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2024

The Stanford Law professors’ hand gestures and facial expressions played prominently into journalists’ recounts of the proceedings, offering the real-life version of the cutaway shot integral to any courtroom TV show.

From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2023

Kreutter can be seen in cutaway shots of the audience.

From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2023

He might have stood there for a while, considering the cutaway road and the perfect metaphor it was, if a murder of black crows hadn’t shown up, cawing their stupid heads off.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

She manages comedy much better than sincerity but Coiro knows how to work around it, punctuating her big speeches with quick cutaways to comic relief so we don’t dwell on them too much.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

Among this year's melodramatic cutaways to contestants supposedly in their hotel rooms was a clip of Charlotte reading a "Learn Welsh" book, priest Lisa praying and Keith practising his martial arts.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2025

The cutaways that were, in some cases, maligned, but are the hardest things to write, to go in and essentially write a Gary Larson “Far Side” panel how many times a day —

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024

A joke during the show about “Barbie” garnered a stone-faced reaction from star Ryan Gosling, and Taylor Swift grimaced at a joke about the abundance of NFL cutaways to her in stadium stands.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2024

At this, ten young men in cutaways will stand up and shout, "Yeaaa—the best man—give the best man a drink!"

From Perfect Behavior; a guide for ladies and gentlemen in all social crises by Donald Ogden Stewart




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