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cookbookery

Definitions

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  • noun derogatory The application of (especially mathematical) techniques learned by rote, without proper understanding or consideration.

Etymologies

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cookbook +‎ -ery

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Examples

  • Now that 'climategate' has removed the curtain and shone the light on the slithering cockroaches within the backrooms of climate cookbookery, there is no longer any debate about the science.

    Prison Planet.com 2009

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