When you "don't make the cut," you don't meet the standards or requirements.
1) Out of a pool of twenty applicants, only 3 met the requirements. ( What meaning??)
2) <em style="color: rgb(44, 53, 60);">Some say if </em><a href="
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<em>Pluto</em></a><em style="color: rgb(44, 53, 60);"> were discovered today instead of 75 years ago,</em>
<em> it wouldn't meet the standards for a planet.</em>
<em style="color: rgb(44, 53, 60);">3) The young player did not </em><em>meet the requirements</em><em style="color: rgb(44, 53, 60);"> and was unable to join the team that year.</em>