as in knives
an instrument with a metal length that has a sharp edge for cutting
a fabric cutter
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Recent Examples of cutters
Cable-cutters can also tune into the NFL championship through a variety of Live TV streamers with access to NBC, such as DirecTV, Hulu + Live TV and Sling TV (in select markets).
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Anna Tingley, Variety, 8 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
Search and rescue crews covered more than 1,000 square miles over 24 hours using multiple aircraft, cutters, and small boats.
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026
Crews covered about 1,000 square miles using aircraft, cutters and small boats over 24 hours before the Coast Guard announced Saturday that all reasonable search efforts had been exhausted.
—Michael Casey, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2026
The mission covered about 1,000 square miles using multiple aircraft, cutters and small boats over a 24-hour period.
—Michael Casey, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2026
The iCraft uses 12×12-inch (30x30-cm) mats just like Cricut and Silhouette desktop cutters, so once again, the market is wide open.
—New Atlas, 29 Jan. 2026
Seamstresses, embroiderers and pattern-cutters account for around 40 people.
—Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 29 Jan. 2026
As the Coast Guard constitutes a critical line of maritime defense for the United States, Force Design 2028 aims to increase its ability to react to threats amid ongoing struggles to obtain and maintain security cutters, particularly in the Arctic region.
—Zita Ballinger Fletcher, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Anna Tingley, Variety, 8 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
Search and rescue crews covered more than 1,000 square miles over 24 hours using multiple aircraft, cutters, and small boats.
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026
Crews covered about 1,000 square miles using aircraft, cutters and small boats over 24 hours before the Coast Guard announced Saturday that all reasonable search efforts had been exhausted.
—Michael Casey, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2026
The mission covered about 1,000 square miles using multiple aircraft, cutters and small boats over a 24-hour period.
—Michael Casey, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2026
The iCraft uses 12×12-inch (30x30-cm) mats just like Cricut and Silhouette desktop cutters, so once again, the market is wide open.
—New Atlas, 29 Jan. 2026
Seamstresses, embroiderers and pattern-cutters account for around 40 people.
—Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 29 Jan. 2026
As the Coast Guard constitutes a critical line of maritime defense for the United States, Force Design 2028 aims to increase its ability to react to threats amid ongoing struggles to obtain and maintain security cutters, particularly in the Arctic region.
—Zita Ballinger Fletcher, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cutters
knives
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Meantime, outflows both from both software and crypto (an asset class most correlated with unprofitable tech stocks) grew excessive until the savage software/bitcoin selloff hit an extreme Thursday, when money came sloshing in to catch the falling knives.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
9 Feb. 2026
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Becoming a master of quadruple jumps that no one else can land, rising with all the ease of a young Michael Jordan—before landing on a pair of butcher knives, on ice.—
Stephanie Bai,
The Atlantic,
8 Feb. 2026
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“Cutters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cutters. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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