How to Use cut-and-dried in a Sentence

cut-and-dried

adjective

• The split in the castle is now cut-and-dried.
  — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026
• There is only so much that’s cut-and-dried.
  — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
• The decisions are even more cut-and-dried when a dancer brings in her coach.
  — Cathy Alter, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2023
• But, even within that process, things aren't always cut-and-dried.
  — Pandora Dewan, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
• Using a cut-and-dry approach may single them out and shut them down.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 9 Feb. 2024
• Part of the reason is that neither the bugs nor their fixes are cut-and-dry.
  — Huo Jingnan, NPR, 11 Apr. 2026
• For another, the issues were more cut-and-dried four decades ago.
  — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2024
• But the rules – and their enforcement – aren’t always cut-and-dried.
  — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 3 Sep. 2024
• What seems like a cut-and-dried case is revealed to have layers upon layers.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 9 Oct. 2024
• But many physicists are not convinced by this cut-and-dried distinction.
  — Dipangkar Dutta, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
• Others say it's not cut-and-dry, or that there are other factors to consider.
  — Michael Tarm, ajc, 24 Mar. 2023
• Simply following a plant list is not a cut-and-dried solution.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
• Clearly, there’s more to this story than a cut-and-dry acquisition.
  — Allure Editors, Allure, 14 Mar. 2025
• The numbers on the health benefits of sun exposure remain less cut-and-dried.
  — Kara McGrath, Allure, 28 June 2024
• But transgender rights advocates are warning the issue is not quite as cut-and-dry.
  — Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 27 Jan. 2026
• The facts of the matter were fairly cut-and-dried, the only issue being how the court would respond to them.
  — Matt Farwell, Harper's Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• But, true to form as a facts-not-feelings guy, Burgos argues that what’s good for you isn’t always so cut-and-dried.
  — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 23 Mar. 2026
• But the reality of the app’s influence on discussions around the war isn’t cut-and-dried.
  — David Ingram, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
• The more expensive tests are often a cut-and-dry digital display to leave no room for confusion.
  — Rachael Schultz, Health, 24 Feb. 2023
• None of these things are true in the cut-and-dry sense, but the message has clearly instilled some fear of gel formulas on the internet.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 3 Sep. 2025
• Why the three companies are being held liable A key aspect of the settlement was cut-and-dry.
  — Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 8 June 2026
• Why the three companies are being held liable A key aspect of the settlement was cut-and-dry.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
• 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
• The dome atop Ford Field removes weather as a variable and makes this pick more cut-and-dried than the other three this weekend.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2025
• What’s noteworthy about that cut-and-dried response is how utterly Ferrari believes it.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Aug. 2023
• Worner said the process is more bureaucratic and cut-and-dried than some might think of a religious process, and likened the process of making a bill into a law.
  — Vivian Wilson, Twin Cities, 8 July 2026
• But not all conflicts are so cut-and-dried; some can go on for decades, with multiple wars waged as underlying problems remain unresolved.
  — John Spencer, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
• Consumers are turning away from the cut-and-dry marketing strategies of the past in search of authentic, eye-catching campaigns that have meaning.
  — Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
• To say this momentarily threw a wrench into the idea that this year’s Oscars would be a cut-and-dried affair is understating things.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2023
• Any actions by an AI system outside those parameters would be a cut-and-dried violation.
  — Lauren Kahn, Foreign Affairs, 6 June 2023