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boilerplate

noun as in stereotype

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All of this boilerplate stuff that is spread throughout your system, that really is focused within your terminal and should be contained within the terminal.

So use her boilerplate prompt to launch whatever topic you’d rather tell the truth about — or ask her for one.

When asked for comment, Facebook sent us the boilerplate “We’re still investigating this issue and will take any learnings to improve our systems going forward.”

Even the recent BBC adaptation of Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy was able to elevate a boilerplate script with bold direction from Mira Nair that infused each frame with the vivid colors and cultural contradictions of postcolonial India.

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I’ll spare you some of the boilerplate about the more obvious implications, but having a Senate majority is a big deal.

The boosting of local Democratic candidates was boilerplate.

Yet today apparently that qualifies as right-wing boilerplate that would qualify Hurston as a race traitor.

Those ideas are hardly original; indeed, they are Republican boilerplate.

The argument is boilerplate Al Qaeda, but many people in developing countries, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, find it persuasive.

In that same press conference, for instance, he repeated conservative boilerplate on repealing the Affordable Care Act.

I felt like a kind of human periwinkle encased in boilerplate and frozen with cold and funk.

I put in the legal notices, whatever news items I had handy or had time to set up, and stuck in boilerplate as a filler.

And this at, the end of it all, lined with boilerplate that even alcohol will not corrode and that only alcohol will tickle.

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On this page you'll find 95 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to boilerplate, such as: mediocre, moderate, ordinary, regular, common, and commonplace.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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