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		JulianChastain 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic What about "we were cut from the deal"? It seems like you could make a phrase in which 'cut' means "to exclude"

keiferski 9 months ago [–]

Doesn’t sound natural to me, and I couldn’t find any examples online using that phrasing to mean someone was removed from a deal. You can be cut from a team, though.

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