Cut
Cut verb - Make out and issue.
Usage example: cut a ticket
Write
Write verb - To compose and set down on paper the words of.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- He would later write a duology (cut down from a trilogy, which meant several ideas were scrapped) for the New Jedi Order, but hasn't returned to the universe since.
Source: Creator / Michael Stackpole -
In the film The Brother From Another Planet, the protagonist uses a shard of glass to cut his palm in order to use his blood to write a message on a graffiti-covered wall.
Source: Palm Bloodletting -
They reconcile by the end of the episode and write a sketch together which explores these issues through comedy, which is cut from the show in favor of Tracy playing a farting Star Jones.
Source: Series / 30 Rock
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