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During our phone interview, she seamlessly breaks into an impression of former UK Prime Minister Theresa May, but notes that just speaking in a tense, clipped way, "is only good for one line really".

In “Sherlock & Daughter,” Thewlis’ cranky, clipped performance spells out why so few venture to peel back the tweedy front he places between himself and everyone else.

Two comics, same jokes but in editing only one of you tell it, then it’s clipped together into one special.

In Kazakhstan in 2020-2021 a mining boom increased energy usage in the country by 7% before the government clamped down and clipped the wings of the burgeoning industry.

But the release also highlighted that Harris’ convoluted answer had been clipped to its most succinct and cogent sentence.