How to Use cord-cutting in a Sentence

cord-cutting

noun
  • Or maybe not, in this cord-cutting, streaming world.
    — Amanda Mull, Bloomberg, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Being down two percent in a cord-cutting and cord-never world is a blip.
    — Richard Deitsch, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Wasn’t cord-cutting supposed to be cheaper?
    — Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Having second thoughts about cord-cutting, but not ready to jump back into that kind of commitment?
    — Reece Rogers, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Revenues for regional sports networks have dropped this decade amidst cord-cutting and the rise of streaming.
    — Evan Drellich, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The cord-cutting has gotten so rampant that Charter has thrown up its hands and surrendered.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • But it’s widely expected the spinoff company will need to find a dance partner to make it through the world of cord-cutting.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Tune-in over the years has continued to defy gravity despite cord-cutting.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 17 Apr. 2025
  • These days, however, cord-cutting has turned much of cable into dead networks walking.
    — David Bloom, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
  • Subconscious signals prompt an abrupt cord-cutting as the moon and Uranus harmonize!
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 14 June 2025
  • Revenue from cable and satellite subscribers is declining as cord-cutting continues at a steady pace each year.
    — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
  • What if cord-cutting accelerates?
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2026
  • In streaming, reality has gained more traction of late as cord-cutting continues and viewer habit evolves.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Discovery sports platform has been touted as a game-changer in a pay TV market hit by cord-cutting.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 May 2024
  • Zaslav is undoubtedly in a panic about the future of cable news, which looks bleak because so many people are cord-cutting.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 17 July 2023
  • Regional sports networks, which have long carried the bulk of baseball broadcasts, are struggling because of cord-cutting.
    — Evan Drellich, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
  • That's a strategy shift designed to get ahead of the cord-cutting that has dented Showtime's linear subscriber base.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone whose attempts at cord-cutting have proven full of trip wires.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
  • But in our current era of cord-cutting, social media platforms have become the go-to vehicle for helping comics to connect with their fans.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2025
  • There’s basically no cord-cutting allowed with the Licence Fee.
    — Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Disney’s stock price has recently tumbled, under pressure from ongoing cord-cutting and the high cost of streaming.
    — Kristin Broughton, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Adding to its challenges, the overall audience for cable TV keeps shrinking every year amid cord-cutting.
    — Isabella Simonetti, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The note follows years worth of cord-cutting, which is expected to continue, affecting revenues for the cable news network.
    — Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Along with streaming, the show’s linear ratings held up well even as cord-cutting eroded the overall footprint of cable TV.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 8 May 2026
  • A lot has happened in the intervening two decades and the companies are experiencing major stress due to cord-cutting.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2024
  • But now there will be far less pressure to find ways to prop up struggling assets or convince Wall Street that cord-cutting is really not a big problem.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The late-night broadcast TV landscape has been upended by the rise of cord-cutting and streaming alternatives.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Cable news remains highly profitable, but cord-cutting is slowly depriving them of the subscriber fees that have sustained the businesses for decades.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
  • Cable cord-cutting, driven by the audience’s shift to streaming video, is shrinking the number of households regional sports networks can reach.
    — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • These struggles were blamed on the rise of streaming and social media—the mass cord-cutting that continues to reshape the entertainment industry.
    — Will Bedingfield, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2023

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