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- adjective
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Examples
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"The youth of today could be termed the cut-and-paste generation, having whole conversations using phrases they've picked up from movies, viral YouTube clips and other media they consume."
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Lived religious experience is never a cut-and-paste affair and cannot be easily understood through a superficial acquaintance with the basic tenets, scripture or theology of a person's religious background.
Paul Brandeis Raushenbush: Religious Identity And The Public Square Paul Brandeis Raushenbush 2011
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JN: I started out as a mixed-media artist doing cut-and-paste collages.
Max Eternity: Joe Nalven: Living Anthropology and the Art of "Homage" Max Eternity 2010
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JN: I started out as a mixed-media artist doing cut-and-paste collages.
Max Eternity: Joe Nalven: Living Anthropology and the Art of "Homage" Max Eternity 2010
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She was a contemporary of characters like Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, and some of her early records count among tropicalia's wildest, with chaotic cut-and-paste collage elements and a psychedelic sense of play.
The Last System Sound Andy Battaglia 2011
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Lived religious experience is never a cut-and-paste affair and cannot be easily understood through a superficial acquaintance with the basic tenets, scripture or theology of a person's religious background.
Paul Brandeis Raushenbush: Religious Identity And The Public Square Paul Brandeis Raushenbush 2011
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Here the young artist's studies of his generation's embrace of cut-and-paste identities include a Facebook soap, Dorm Daze, in which he invites his British friends to masquerade as American college students under his direction.
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The film – surely the most visually inventive bio-doc ever – is a kinetic masterpiece of cut-and-paste photo-animation, with voiced commentary from the people who loved him most.
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Hi Klaus … easiest would be to cut-and-paste from the entry for INPUT in An A-Z of ELT:
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This coming November, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History will exhibit a cut-and-paste Bible of a mere 86 pages.
Thomas Jefferson's Cut-and-Paste Bible Stephen Prothero 2011
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