clipped

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It took a decade to fix the 60-year-old-plus photographs of celebrities, most clipped from a Dutch women's magazine.

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  1. Cut off by clipping; cut short: having the ends or edges cut off.
  2. Clipped speech a defect of speech noted in certain cases of general paralysis, in which the final syllable or terminal consonant of a word is not pronounced.

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  • It took a decade to fix the 60-year-old-plus photographs of celebrities, most clipped from a Dutch women's magazine. —  Jewish Exponent News
  • Second, it would be useful if dates-received, read, flagged, or "clipped" - were possible criteria in Smart Lists. —  MyAppleMenu
  • He was a slender fellow with close-clipped, assertive red hair. —  Prairie Folks
  • One of the men brought with him a piece of barbed wire, clipped from the German entanglements two hundred and fifty yards away Taffy, 'ave a look at this 'ere. —  Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army
  • If she did address them by their baptismal names they were names that could not be compressed nor clipped, as for example Ferapont or Panteleimon. —  The Precipice
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