Example Sentences

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Still, at least my costume was cutting the right figure.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026

Layoffs have continued with another tech company saying it was cutting people to enable it to use more artificial intelligence.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

Air Asia announced last month it was cutting more flights and even some connections without providing an overall figure.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

Coinbase Global Chief Executive Brian Armstrong said his company was cutting 14% of its workforce as AI changes “how we work.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

While my family’s history of mental illness was cutting through my consciousness like a red line, my scientific work as a cancer biologist was also converging on the normalcy and abnormalcy of genes.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee