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also cut-and-dry
as in normal
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
And matters of faith, of course, are never quite so cut-and-dried.
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Terry Nguyen
july 23, Literary Hub, 23 July 2025
Now that Combs has been acquitted of all but the most cut-and-dry charges—transporting people across state lines for the purposes of prostitution—the obvious question to ask is whether prosecutors overreached.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 July 2025
People's mental health journeys, too, aren't so linear, cut-and-dry.
—David Oliver, USA Today, 7 May 2025
Here’s the cut-and-dry of it: Butler and Kuminga play the same position — inside-the-arc power forward.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for cut-and-dried
Terry Nguyen
july 23, Literary Hub, 23 July 2025
Now that Combs has been acquitted of all but the most cut-and-dry charges—transporting people across state lines for the purposes of prostitution—the obvious question to ask is whether prosecutors overreached.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 July 2025
People's mental health journeys, too, aren't so linear, cut-and-dry.
—David Oliver, USA Today, 7 May 2025
Here’s the cut-and-dry of it: Butler and Kuminga play the same position — inside-the-arc power forward.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for cut-and-dried
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cut-and-dried
Adjective
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Shawn Dahl, a space weather forecaster at the Space Weather Prediction Center, notes that an additional, even stronger CME is expected midday Wednesday — along with the chance to see the northern lights farther south than normal.—
Briana Waxman,
CNN Money,
12 Nov. 2025
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Members will be able to shop inside the warehouse during normal business hours.—
Alex Perry,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
11 Nov. 2025
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His usual producer, Nick Schwarz, took the first crack at it and cut a version that hit hard.—
Tom Roland,
Billboard,
5 Nov. 2025
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Across all household sizes, the SNAP reduction is roughly 49 percent—meaning households claiming the top amount will get about half of their usual monthly benefit in November.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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Obviously, fastidious double-entry bookkeeping reduces the margin for error, even in complicated accounts, but more than that, once accounts become commonplace, ordinary people begin to think of the world in terms of accounts.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
5 Nov. 2025
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But this isn’t an ordinary cookbook, one with 30-minute recipes and sensible serving sizes.—
Leah Asmelash,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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The Midea Flexify Air Fryer isn’t your typical air fryer.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
7 Nov. 2025
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Nearby Leyte and northern parts of Mindanao, both populous islands in the center of the country, saw between 150 and 250 mm (6 to 10 inches) of rain in only 24 hours — well above the typical monthly rainfall for November.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Exorbitant displays of wealth like those on Cribs are now commonplace.—
Kim Hew-Low,
The Atlantic,
10 Nov. 2025
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In the late ‘90s and early ‘00s, home computers became commonplace, and the ways in which early users of the World Wide Web were substantially different from those of today.—
William Jones,
IndyStar,
6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The health research nonprofit KFF said the amount people pay for coverage will rise by 114 percent on average.—
Nathaniel Weixel,
The Hill,
6 Nov. 2025
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At the same time, employer health benefit plans are also predicted to see an average increase of over 6 percent in cost next year.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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What these places have in common is a large military presence.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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As an example, in the study the authors showcase a common AI benchmark called Grade School Math 8K (GSM8K), which measures performance on a set of basic math questions.—
Jared Perlo,
NBC news,
6 Nov. 2025
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During his routine pre-game session with reporters Friday, Spoelstra brought his sons Santiago and Dante and his daughter Ruby to the dais and expressed relief that nobody was injured in the blaze.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
8 Nov. 2025
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That was in comparison with people who took a placebo along with their routine cholesterol-lowering medications.—
Jacqueline Howard,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Cut-and-dried.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cut-and-dried. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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