Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Prepared and arranged in advance; settled.
- adjective Ordinary; routine.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective according to ordinary expectations
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Examples
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This seems, to adults who have reached the formal operational stage of cognitive development, to be a cut-and-dried case of an understanding that could have been very easily resolved if all were in their right minds.
College Student Doesn't Get A Bad Example Jason Linkins 2011
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This seems, to adults who have reached the formal operational stage of cognitive development, to be a cut-and-dried case of an understanding that could have been very easily resolved if all were in their right minds.
College Student Doesn't Get A Bad Example Jason Linkins 2011
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Of course, this sounds more cut-and-dried than it often is in comments threads.
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This seems, to adults who have reached the formal operational stage of cognitive development, to be a cut-and-dried case of an understanding that could have been very easily resolved if all were in their right minds.
College Student Doesn't Get A Bad Example Jason Linkins 2011
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It's not always so cut-and-dried, "he tells TVGuide. com" There are sometimes conditions that lend themselves to why these things happen.
Criminal Minds: What Happens When a Serial Killer Has Alzheimer's? 2010
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Of course, this sounds more cut-and-dried than it often is in comments threads.
Archive 2010-03-01 2010
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This is a hands down clear-cut, cut-and-dried, uncomplicated situation.
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This is a hands down clear-cut, cut-and-dried, uncomplicated situation.
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But the second complaint is pretty much a cut-and-dried case.
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Nobody had to wrest away exclusive CNN rights to, say, the Pentagon or Federal Reserve — but TV sports revolves around such cut-and-dried deals.
A Comcast takeover could bring more tools, questions to NBC Sports 2009
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