cut-and-dried
Example Sentences
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While Selig frames the CFTC’s jurisdiction as cut-and-dried, others have argued that the agency’s actions could open up a host of policy questions that it is underequipped to handle.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026
“It isn’t going to be a cut-and-dried outcome.”
From Barron's • Dec. 15, 2025
Because there isn’t a cut-and-dried solution in the context of “Squid Game 2,” it demands conversation, which can be important in and of itself.
From Salon • Dec. 31, 2024
The complex interactions of fluid and soft matter physics prove challenging to simplify into cut-and-dried formulae.
From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2024
The infraction was so cut-and-dried, and my writing so plain and direct, that I was about to explode from frustration.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
