cut-and-dried
adjective
variants
or less commonly cut-and-dry
: being or done according to a plan, set procedure, or formula : routine
a cut-and-dried presentation
Examples of cut-and-dried in a Sentence
a cut-and-dried session of the convention just to get required business out of the way
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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
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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
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“Cut-and-dried.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cut-and-dried. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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