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• Lynch shot this line for his film but wisely left it on the cutting-room floor.
  — Max Evry, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
• There’s some crazy electronic songs that got left on the cutting-room floor.
  — Vulture, 21 Feb. 2022
• Kim Kardashian’s archival dress is on the cutting-room floor.
  — Blonde Trailer: Fade, Vulture, 28 July 2022
• So much ends up on the cutting-room floor because the contestants give us so much to do with the edit.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
• He was hired as an extra, had a bit part that was left on the cutting-room floor and worked for about 10 weeks on the movie.
  — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• For a legend like Rock Hall member Khan, that leaves a lot on the cutting-room floor.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 11 June 2024
• If expansion does continue, these programs may be the biggest names left on the cutting-room floor.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
• Naturally, a lot of delightful randomness landed on the cutting-room floor.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2023
• That’s why the Justice in Policing Act’s racial-profiling provisions would be best left on the cutting-room floor.
  — James R. Copland, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
• But Republicans devoted to lowering taxes have pressed for one mammoth bill to ensure that tax cuts are not left on the cutting-room floor.
  — Andrew Duehren, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
• One left on the cutting-room floor would require hospitals to seek Kendra’s Law orders for all psychiatric patients who meet the standard for them.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
• During the process of creating original characters for the visual novel, numerous ideas ended up on the cutting-room floor.
  — Reece Rogers, Wired, 11 Mar. 2021
• The only thing missing is Page’s obsession with occult master Aleister Crowley, but maybe that was left on the cutting-room floor.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2023
• In the past, any political differences among the cast could be edited out; major discussions about gender, race, class, or sexuality could be left on the cutting-room floor.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2021
• Say Nothing leaves so much of the British and Protestant aggression Keefe’s book so carefully reconstructs on the cutting-room floor.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024
• That three songs this great could be on the cutting-room floor of anyone’s career-spanning set puts into perspective the scale of the mountain Swift finds herself atop in 2024.
  — Jenn Pelly, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024
• This could leave many potential cures for various cancers on the cutting-room floor and leave young cancer scientists unable to get the financial backing theyneed to pursue innovative ideas.
  — Scientific American, 28 Dec. 2021
• Close observers might note that the proposals are similar to, although less ambitious than, those that were left on the cutting-room floor when the Inflation Reduction Act passed.
  — Time, 11 July 2023
• Left on the cutting-room floor Even though the council met almost 98 percent of the county’s funding requests, some initiatives did not make it onto the final reconciliation list.
  — Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
• Those were two of the wrong guesses — Bolts and Rangers — that wound up on the cutting-room floor in the hilarious person-on-the-street video the Tennessee Titans created for their schedule release.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2023
• The new edition, released Friday on vinyl, CD and digitally, includes a remaster of the original album as well as a bevy of additional tracks left on the cutting-room floor, most of them never before released.
  — Dallas News, 3 May 2022