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  • noun Plural form of cut.
  • noun Australia, with "the" Corporal punishment at school.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cut.

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Examples

  • In her work it ranges across the whole spectrum of resonance, from affirmation, celebration, punchy frankness to unpleasantness, insult and mundanity, via the still-thrilling buzz of the just-not-said, and all simultaneously, all in the swivel of a repetition, the shape a word cuts in time.

    Tracey Emin: 'What you see is what I am' 2011

  • The title cuts two ways: the movie argues the U.S. political and economic system is rigged, and huge changes are required to correct it.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • The most important reason for the cuts is the London Olympics.

    Funding for major heritage projects to be slashed by £60m Mia 2007

  • The most important reason for the cuts is the London Olympics.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Mia 2007

  • When you're in that moment and you're sitting on your hands for a year and a half before your label cuts lose $800 so you can go record a demo, of course, you go into that moment and everything is precious.

    Joe Henry Is a Still Driving Man 2007

  • Both Hillier and Eve Adams, the Conservative junior veterans affairs minister, objected to the use of the word "cuts" to describe what was happening at the department.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2011

  • Reid said his bill, which has about the same number of short term cuts in spending as the Boehner bill does, but takes into account savings from ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and raises the debt ceiling over $2 trillion that would take the country through the end of 2012.

    Breaking News: CBS News 2011

  • Call: 201-735-iNet 4638 Bernanke on Austerity: Don't Do It Taking aim at those who would make short term cuts in federal government spending, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke made one of his most political speeches ever at a luncheon for the Economic Club of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

    unknown title 2011

  • Ford has refused to use the word "cuts," habitually referring to "efficiencies."

    Thestar.com - Home Page Daniel Dale 2011

  • I think this term cuts wrong in several directions.

    patrickrhone / journal 2010

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