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• In this movie, Tokyo is cut off from the rest of the world by giant bubbles that defy gravity.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 14 Apr. 2023
• The upper level winds that carry storms are going to become cut off from the main jet stream.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2023
• That’s a problem, because without sea ice to travel on, the bears are stuck on land and cut off from their food supply.
  — Heather Greenwood Davis, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2023
• More than 600 homes were destroyed and some communities were cut off from aid due to the storm, García said.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 22 Sep. 2022
• As the race wears on, the route grows more and more remote, cut off from highways, spectators and hospitals.
  — Max Ufberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
• Those who watched on D+ last fall will still be able to do so next season, while folks cut off from their cha-cha-cha fix will once again be able to watch on ABC.
  — Vulture, 2 May 2023
• Transportation was a mess, and major cities were cut off from the rest of the country for days at a time as airports, trains, and cars were all stuck at a standstill.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 16 Dec. 2022
• If Musk’s company loses access to that, it will be cut off from more than 1.5 billion devices around the world.
  — Time, 29 Nov. 2022
• Some villages in rural southern Turkey, some villages were cut off from aid for days after the quake.
  — Gulsin Harman, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2023
• That became very frustrating to people on the inside, to be cut off from their families.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
• Amid war and sanctions, Russians have been cut off from many of their preferred vacation spots this summer.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Sep. 2022
• One need only look to the Great Salt Lake’s north arm, which is cut off from freshwater sources due to a railroad causeway, to see the impacts of spiked salinity.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Sep. 2022
• For years Sallie was cut off from her father and his kin, sent to live with her Aunt Faye, who Sallie believes subsists on taking in laundry.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
• Another woman who had been cut off from her family for decades.
  — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• Tigray is still largely cut off from the rest of Ethiopia, although aid deliveries into the region resumed after the Nov. 2 cease-fire deal signed in South Africa.
  — Rodney Muhumuza, ajc, 27 Nov. 2022
• The moment a donor heart is cut off from its blood supply, transplant teams are on a race against the clock to remove it, transport it, and sew it into the recipient, all within four hours.
  — Elaine Chen, STAT, 8 Feb. 2023
• Dozens of residents lined up to gain access to the free internet service after days, if not weeks, of being cut off from friends and family.
  — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2022
• This meant that Moscow would be cut off from what had been its largest market—nearly four million barrels a day—and that much of the world’s tanker fleet would no longer be able to carry Russian barrels.
  — Daniel Yergin, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2022
• The gathering spot had been a pandemic refuge, particularly for teen gamers locked in their houses and cut off from their real-world friends.
  — Shane Harris and Samuel Oakford, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2023
• More people are believed to be dead in their homes, their neighbors say, having been cut off from access to services and emergency responders.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
• The city lies on the river’s western bank and has been largely cut off from the eastern bank by Ukrainian precision strikes against bridges and other supply lines that had been used to reinforce Moscow’s troops in the city.
  — Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
• The island community of Sanibel has been cut off from the mainland after a large section of its causeway collapsed into the Gulf of Mexico.
  — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 29 Sep. 2022
• Bostonians didn’t overthrow British tyranny three centuries ago just to be cut off from Market Basket bargains.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Dec. 2022
• There’s also a different kind of entrapment playing out on television that seems to refer less to being cut off from the world than to the idea that fate can be its own kind of imprisonment.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2022
• Municipal rescuers, private teams and the Coast Guard used boats and helicopters Friday to evacuate residents who stayed for the storm and then were cut off from the mainland when a causeway collapsed.
  — Meg Kinnard, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2022
• Worse still, entire communities can become cut off from access to clean drinking water.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 7 May 2023
• If a wildfire were to spread on the Anchorage Hillside, some neighborhoods would quickly be cut off from evacuating by limited roads.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2023
• About 12 million people in Kyiv and in almost all regions of the country are cut off from electricity supply, according to Zelenskiy.
  — Bloomberg.com, 13 Dec. 2022
• Without their support, women and children are left hungry, cut off from employment and education.
  — Sarah Beth Guevara, ABC News, 21 Feb. 2023
• Until now, ChatGPT has been cut off from the live internet, unable to look up recent information or interact with websites.
  — WIRED, 28 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024