cuts back

As the fledgling couple whirls into a ballet, the number flashes forward to show the heartbreak ahead, and then cuts back again so that we feel the sting of all that wasted promise.

Here she played the album’s most ’90s-coded cuts back to back, jamming “Pretty Isn’t Pretty” into “Love Is Embarrassing” as though we’d suddenly been dropped into a gig by Lush.

Walt Disney Co.-owned computer animation studio Pixar is laying off 14% of its staff, as it cuts back on the number of streaming series it produces.

He cuts back to Murray, who drives low at goal.

For the next two frenetic hours, it repeatedly cuts back to the past — where a mother and child happily lived once upon a bucolic time — before returning to the grubby, raw-knuckle present.