variants also cut-and-dry

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Recent Examples of cut-and-dried That’s the perfect setup for a cut-and-dried, eat-the-rich story in which every non-wealthy person agrees with Marshall, protects him, and gratefully accepts the mushrooms. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2025 Clearly, there’s more to this story than a cut-and-dry acquisition. Allure Editors, Allure, 14 Mar. 2025 There isn’t really a cut-and-dried answer, but a good starting point is identifying the key stakeholders where AI is likely to be deployed. Matt Kunkel, Forbes, 4 Mar. 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 See All Example Sentences for cut-and-dried
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cut-and-dried
Adjective
  • This is an excellent day for business and commercial ventures, because your objectives and goals are clearer to you than usual.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 22 June 2025
  • Did Bill Plaschke ghost-write these letters with his usual accurate predictions/suggestions?
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • This means that some particles will decay in the normal world while their counterparts in the mirror would not.
    Zack Savitsky, Wired News, 22 June 2025
  • On Tuesdays, theater tickets at Cinemark Century Folsom 7 cost $5.50, compared to the normal ticket price of $10.99.
    Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • Still, experts widely agree that the attack shares several characteristics typical of ransomware events, including a full system shutdown, containment procedures and prolonged disruption.
    Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
  • As is typical, the children were shot from behind, but that could change, as Platell noted.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • It’s almost always detected via a routine prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, a screening blood test that most men undergo every couple of years or so starting around age 50 for those with average risk.
    Angela Haupt, Time, 27 June 2025
  • But even with those changes, the core of my routine remains.
    Jailynn Taylor, Allure, 26 June 2025

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“Cut-and-dried.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cut-and-dried. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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