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boilerplate

or boil·er plate

[ boi-ler-pleyt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

plating of iron or steel for making the shells of boilers, covering the hulls of ships, etc.
Journalism.
1. syndicated or ready-to-print copy, used especially by weekly newspapers.
2. trite, hackneyed writing.
the detailed standard wording of a contract, warranty, etc.
Informal. phrases or units of text used repeatedly, as in correspondence produced by a word-processing system.
frozen, crusty, hard-packed snow, often with icy patches.

boilerplate

/ ˈbɔɪləˌpleɪt /

a form of mild-steel plate used in the production of boiler shells
a copy made with the intention of making other copies from it
a set of instructions incorporated in several places in a computer program or a standard form of words used repeatedly in drafting contracts, guarantees, etc
a draft contract that can easily be modified to cover various types of transaction

First recorded in 1855–60

The boosting of local Democratic candidates was boilerplate.

Yet today apparently that qualifies as right-wing boilerplate that would qualify Hurston as a race traitor.

Those ideas are hardly original; indeed, they are Republican boilerplate.

The argument is boilerplate Al Qaeda, but many people in developing countries, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, find it persuasive.

In that same press conference, for instance, he repeated conservative boilerplate on repealing the Affordable Care Act.

I felt like a kind of human periwinkle encased in boilerplate and frozen with cold and funk.

I put in the legal notices, whatever news items I had handy or had time to set up, and stuck in boilerplate as a filler.

And this at, the end of it all, lined with boilerplate that even alcohol will not corrode and that only alcohol will tickle.

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