boiler plate
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The specific assignments seem relatively low-level boiler plate that was heavily informed by the detailed instructions.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2023
The FRC beefed up its decade-old stewardship code in 2020 to stop "boiler plate" statements about investment decision-making that it said did little to show if investors were getting value for money.
From Reuters ● Sep. 5, 2021
These two ideas are practically boiler plate at this point in the pandemic.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2020
Your comment is heart-felt but it is heavy on boiler plate rhetoric and short on facts.
From Economist ● Dec. 18, 2013
Expansion joints were provided for by building into the curb every 12 ft., a piece of ⅜-in. boiler plate, which was afterward withdrawn and the joint filled with sand and faced over.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers
