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cut-and-paste
Cut and paste refers to a computer process in which text is removed from one spot, stored briefly in the computer's internal memory and then inserted into another. (verb)
An example of cut and paste is when you cut the word "cat" out of the following sentence and move it to wherever it makes more sense. The sentence can go from: "The and the hat cat." to "The Cat and the Hat," simply by cutting the word "Cat" and pasting it back into the sentence.
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