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How to use the word cut-and-dry in a Sentence?

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There may be more risk of Powell being replaced under President Trump than Biden. President Trump was criticizing Powell even when the economy and market were both doing well, that's just one reason why the outcome of this election is not as cut and dry. Biden represents the precedent of Obama keeping Bernanke.

Nela Richardson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There is more to life than profit, what is right is not cut and dry.

Tom Brown

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is not cut and dry.

Richard Neal

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think it’s going to be a cut-and-dry case, it’s obviously a HIPAA violation. It sat on an unprotected server and no one noticed it for nine months. Anyone could have gotten this.

Larry Frampton

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It’s really cut and dry.

Dan Backer

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

If you stand in the middle of a freeway and try to block a freeway, you deserve to go to jail, it's really that cut and dry.

Nick Zerwas

Found on CNN
7 years ago

In visiting the salon I had gone to for three months, I thought I was going in for a cut and dry, i ended up escaping a life in which everyone treated me like a dog, thanks to the help of the undercover activists.

Esperanza Escobar

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Pro-ban supports would like to make it cut and dry, but it’s a very complicated issue, it’s an onion, and you have to peel away the layers.

Jay Hauck

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Pro-ban supports would like to make it cut and dry, but it’s a very complicated issue, it’s an onion, and you can have to peel away the layers.

Jay Hauck

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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