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ready-made

[red-ee-meyd] / ˈrɛd iˈmeɪd /
ADJECTIVE
prepared
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"People like convenience, ready-made meals and they'll buy a pizza which is on offer and not think 'oh we could do that from scratch'."

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

Hild and Skinner had come to the session with a ready-made fix: a set of pre-written bills and plenty of funding.

From Salon • Apr. 10, 2026

Over time, more bees followed, using these natural cavities inside fossilized bones as ready-made nesting sites.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

If he couldn’t buy DeepMind and acquire a ready-made team, Zuckerberg wanted a famous professor to assemble an AI squad for him.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Father put his hands over his face and said, “Christopher. Look. I’ll buy some ready-made stuff from Marks and Spencer’s and take those in. She likes those.”

From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon