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cookie-cuttering

cookie-cuttering is the present participle and gerund of cookie-cutter.

Meaning of cookie-cutter

Verb

cookie-cutter (third-person singular simple present cookie-cutters, present participle cookie-cuttering, simple past and past participle cookie-cuttered)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive, uncommon) To produce, design, or approach something in a formulaic, mass-produced or unoriginal manner, often ensuring all the outputs are identical.
    • Ever since USA Today arrived with its bar graphs, its color-coded weather maps (red means hot, boys and girls!), its stick-figure journalism, its pages cookie-cuttered by brights and factoids and its expert trivializing of everything from wars to nutrition, the craft of newspapering meant nothing...1991, Paul Daugherty, “The Write Stuff, What A Shame Nobody Wants To Read It Anymore”, in Cincinnati Magazine, volume 24, number 11, page 58

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Questions about cookie-cuttering

What is cookie-cuttering the present participle and gerund of?
Cookie-cuttering is the present participle and gerund of cookie-cutter.

Words near cookie-cuttering in the dictionary

  1. cookie swaps
  2. cookie wall
  3. cookie walls
  4. cookie-cutter
  5. cookie-cuttered
  6. cookie-cuttering
  7. cookie-cutterish
  8. cookie-cutters
  9. cookie-jar accounting
  10. cookie-jar reserve
  11. cookie-jar reserves

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