as in knife
an instrument with a metal length that has a sharp edge for cutting
a fabric cutter
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Recent Examples of cutter
Honoring this performance in Bormio will require more creativity from his local meat cutter.
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Aimee Lewis, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2026
The salesperson in the custom knife shop with a $1,200 pizza cutter on offer — albeit the most beautiful pizza cutter I, personally, have ever seen — said that more customers had started to trickle in now that the fervor on Main Street had died down and the roads were clearer.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 7 Feb. 2026
Roll the dough to a 1/4-inch thickness and chill the dough slightly before cutting out with the round cutter of your choice.
—Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
Multiple aircraft, cutters and small boats searched 1,047 square miles over 24 hours, finding debris near the location where the EPIRB was activated, along with one body and an unoccupied life raft that had been deployed.
—Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 4 Feb. 2026
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Aimee Lewis, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2026
The salesperson in the custom knife shop with a $1,200 pizza cutter on offer — albeit the most beautiful pizza cutter I, personally, have ever seen — said that more customers had started to trickle in now that the fervor on Main Street had died down and the roads were clearer.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 7 Feb. 2026
Roll the dough to a 1/4-inch thickness and chill the dough slightly before cutting out with the round cutter of your choice.
—Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
Multiple aircraft, cutters and small boats searched 1,047 square miles over 24 hours, finding debris near the location where the EPIRB was activated, along with one body and an unoccupied life raft that had been deployed.
—Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 4 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cutter
knife
Noun
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Dressed ominously in brown combat garb with black leather gloves and a hunting knife strapped to her back, the German actress tries several takes as rush hour revs up.—
Pat Saperstein,
Variety,
15 Feb. 2026
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Using scissors, or knives that aren’t sharp may crush the vascular tissue and prevent the flowers from taking up water, leading to faster decline.—
Heather Zidack,
Hartford Courant,
15 Feb. 2026
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“Cutter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cutter. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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