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
Demme closes in on Weymouth playing two notes in a song before cutting away to a guitar solo.
From Salon • Sep. 21, 2023
Circuit Court of Appeals last week significantly whittled down that order, eliminating some defendants and cutting away language that prohibited mere encouragement of content changes.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2023
Najeebah Al-Ghadban is a collage artist who, through the cutting away or transfiguration of images, focuses on how much we reveal or conceal about our internal worlds.
From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2023
Slowly, Candice began cutting away at the canvas.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
