Cut
Cut verb - To depart abruptly from a straight line or course.
Usage example: cut towards the goal, eluding a defender
Slew
Slew verb - Turn sharply; change direction abruptly.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Cut to a huge slew of TV vans and police cruisers around his house.Ken: (incredulous) What did he do, hire a publicist?!
Source: Film / Ruthless People -
Simple statistics should have had Gaunt's expeditionary force cut down to the last man.... They slew, approximately, two-point-four thousand soldiers of the enemy.
Source: Literature / Gaunt's Ghosts -
It can even bash blocks upside down, allowing it to uncover a slew of extra lives and continues, and cut through blocks from above like Red Stealth or Iron Knight.
Source: Video Game / Kid Chameleon
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