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the line in the sand the universe drew while you were busy.
means A fixed limit, point, or deadline beyond which something no longer counts or continues — or the act of stopping or severing something.
from A straightforward English compound of 'cut' and 'off,' both old Germanic-rooted words. 'Cut' likely traces back through Middle English to a Scandinavian source, while 'off' is simply an emphatic form of 'of.' The verb phrase 'to cut off' is very old, and by the 19th century the noun 'cutoff' had budded from it — first in concrete senses (a river channel cutting off a bend, a shortcut, a steam-engine valve point) before settling into the everyday sense of a limit or deadline.
- jeans origin
- Born from ruined denim too good to toss
- engine tech
- Fuel cutoff prevents runaway diesel disasters
- electrical
- Circuit breakers are cutoffs that save buildings
- deadline math
- One second past it equals zero credit
- hearing limit
- Most ears cut off around 20,000 hertz
unix epoch — january 1, 1970 00:00:00 utc, the standard reference point for computer timestamps
bretton woods conference — july 1944, when allied nations agreed to end the gold standard and create new monetary system
covid-19 lockdowns — march 2020 onwards, when governments cut off normal economic and social activity in most countries