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also cut-and-dry
as in usual
being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events
a cut-and-dried session of the convention just to get required business out of the way
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Recent Examples of cut-and-dried
That’s pretty cut-and-dried: An agent can’t refuse to work with potential clients because of these factors.
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Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2025
The latter is a novel that should have been marketed as a cut-and-dried narco thriller but was instead positioned as an overdue humanization of the undocumented experience at the Mexican border.
—Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2025
The answer to that—and what actually made Twin Peaks so compelling, beyond its core mystery—lay in Lynch’s rejection of cut-and-dried solutions.
—Emma Stefansky, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2025
The problem, however, is that relative to the amount of airtime this arc is taking up, the answers seem to be very cut-and-dry.
—Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for cut-and-dried
Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2025
The latter is a novel that should have been marketed as a cut-and-dried narco thriller but was instead positioned as an overdue humanization of the undocumented experience at the Mexican border.
—Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2025
The answer to that—and what actually made Twin Peaks so compelling, beyond its core mystery—lay in Lynch’s rejection of cut-and-dried solutions.
—Emma Stefansky, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2025
The problem, however, is that relative to the amount of airtime this arc is taking up, the answers seem to be very cut-and-dry.
—Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for cut-and-dried
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cut-and-dried
Adjective
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Several key figures - see Kevin de Bruyne, Ilkay Gundogan and Kyle Walker - are now into the twilights of their respective careers and so Guardiola’s team have been unable to play its usual style of high-energy, high-intensity soccer.—
Graham Ruthven,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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Billy Martin, his usual go-to guy, was now managing the A’s, and Stick was right there, serving as his top Yankees advisor.—
Bill Madden,
New York Daily News,
29 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Across Los Angeles and Ventura counties, temperatures are expected to be five to 12 degrees below normal, Lund said.—
Seema Mehta,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Mar. 2025
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Madison – the episode’s host – along with Sarah Sherman and Ego Nwodim played high school students texting each other some normal teenage gossip… until Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, played by Andrew Dismukes, randomly popped into the chat to update the chain about a pending military plan.—
Alli Rosenbloom,
CNN Money,
30 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The physical and financial strains typical of an aging household may have caused hardships for removing vegetation – a best practice in protecting a structure from an ember fire.—
Calvin Schermerhorn,
The Conversation,
8 Apr. 2025
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Overnight, temperatures will remain in the 50s, well above the 41 degrees typical for this date.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
8 Apr. 2025
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Each establishment receives between one and four routine inspections per year.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Apr. 2025
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The office has been planning for cuts to routine inspections of drugmakers and food producers because of the layoffs.—
Alexander Tin,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2025
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“Cut-and-dried.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cut-and-dried. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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