as in conventional
disapproving
very similar to other things of the same kind; not original or different
a neighborhood of cookie-cutter houses Opponents accused the candidate of taking a cookie-cutter approach to the problem.
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Recent Examples of cookie-cutter
Claridge’s 269 rooms and suites are anything but cookie-cutter, with 26 categories, ranging from the Superior Room to the palatial new Penthouse, decked out with four bedrooms, green onyx fireplaces, a revolving couch, and the world’s largest Damien Hirst private collection.
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Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 13 Oct. 2024
Down a steep bank lay a row of cookie-cutter houses, now up to their eaves in muddy water.
—Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Oct. 2024
Most single family homes are cookie-cutter and placed without consideration for how the sun travels throughout the day.
—Danish Kurani, TIME, 27 Sep. 2024
Getting locked into one provider or tool due to a cookie-cutter implementation could prove unnecessarily costly and limiting.
—Michael Manos, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
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Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 13 Oct. 2024
Down a steep bank lay a row of cookie-cutter houses, now up to their eaves in muddy water.
—Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Oct. 2024
Most single family homes are cookie-cutter and placed without consideration for how the sun travels throughout the day.
—Danish Kurani, TIME, 27 Sep. 2024
Getting locked into one provider or tool due to a cookie-cutter implementation could prove unnecessarily costly and limiting.
—Michael Manos, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
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Perhaps not coincidentally, by the time the first season ended, Tulsa King had become less of a lighthearted dramedy — about an old-fashioned New York crime boss way out of his element — and more of a conventional crime drama with betrayals, gunfights, and brooding regrets.Noel Murray, Vulture, 18 Nov. 2024
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Drone fleets are impractical if not impossible to shoot down with conventional projectiles.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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Chicano artists also critically reexamined stereotyped figures, such as the pachuco and pachuca, and retold current and historic events through artworks that questioned hegemonic narratives.Mary Thomas, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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Covino is also tasked with the least comedic role and excels at imbuing his character with enough nuance to be the one actor who transcends the script’s stereotyped trappings.Marya E. Gates, IndieWire, 11 Sep. 2024
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The increase in net loss is due to increases in general and administrative expenses, professional fees, and losses on settlement of debt and derivative loss.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 20 Nov. 2024
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The funny thing is that the designs Mr. Reed has in mind for these ladies are as derivative and unoriginal as his monologues, and that’s kind of the point.Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2024
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“Cookie-cutter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cookie-cutter. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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