cutout

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By pressing a button on the cutout, a person can hear a recording of the suspect's voice, hopefully prompting someone to remember speaking to him.

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  1. noun Something cut out or intended to be cut out from something else.
  2. noun Electricity A device that interrupts, bypasses, or disconnects a circuit or circuit element.
  3. noun A recording that is no longer current and whose remaining stock is sold at a discounted price.

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  • The chassis is also well ventilated with 92mm fan cutouts in the front and back as well as a 80mm side panel fan cutout, although only the rear 92mm fan is actually included. —  HotHardware.com News Rss Feed
  • After discovering the cutout, the university contacted the Newberg Police Department, which determined that no state laws had been broken. —  The Daily Texan RSS
  • Then using Jim Cooper as a cutout, it was leaked that Obama was unhappy with the waste in the stimulus bill and that his people had walked back the statement, the damage was done -- John Fund and others had picked up the baton and were spreading the meme that anything objectionable in this bill was Pelosi's fault, and that Obama was quite rightly angry about it. —  Firedoglake
  • If the shuttle does not get off before the Soyuz cutout, the flight will be delayed to April 7, the same day the outgoing station crew - commander Mike Fincke, flight engineer Yuri Lonchakov and the space tourist - returns to Earth. —  Breaking News: CBS News
  • So far the cutout isn't doing its part to solve the margin problem.
 

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