clear-cut

The messy reality is that the line between establishment, moderate, and progressive isn’t always so clear-cut.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

The US leader's influence could be less clear-cut this time around, however.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

That refusal to cast anyone as a clear-cut villain is something critics have highlighted in their reviews.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

Safety benefits aren’t often clear-cut, and the realities of costs, testing and supply-chain bottlenecks can slow changes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

Or is there a third category that, ethically speaking, is not so clear-cut?

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Bottom trawling is a fishing method that’s extremely destructive to sensitive habitat types; it’s been compared to clear-cutting forests to catch rabbits.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2024

A few years earlier, the Resnicks’ Justin Vineyards had been caught clear-cutting an oak forest near Paso Robles to make room for new grape plantings.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2024

And most ecologists regard degradation as the consequence of the type of large scale clear-cutting that is nearly the universal method of logging in Canada.

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2024

Across the way, dark-firred hills made a noble border between water and sky, with only one little bald patch of clear-cutting marring the view.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2023

The very terror of this clear-cutting sword-sweep, dividing us, bone from bone, may, nay! probably will, send us back to our gentle "lovers of humanity" who, "knowing everything pardon everything."

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper