cut in half
Example Sentences
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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
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
What followed was a sharp correction, with the ETF cut in half over just five weeks.
From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026
Cyprus was being cut in half like Berlin, like Korea, like all the other places in the world that were no longer one thing or the other.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
