substitute words on a line only before first delimeter using sed or awk

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with sed

sed -r 's_([^/]+/)__'

similarly with awk

awk '{sub(/[^/]+\//,"")}1'

however, cut is the most proper tool for this task

cut -d/ -f2-

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