How To Use Boilerplate In A Sentence
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It eliminates the need to write and debug boilerplate lighting and navigation code.
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The language is boilerplate, but given the deluge of speculation regarding their fate, it seems to underline the extent of the uncertainty surrounding its plans.
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Naturally, the ad was filled with standard Jindal campaign boilerplate, which is fine, but what struck me were the three very curious photos that accompanied the text.
Archive 2007-10-01
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He reports that they've also taken to including the following boilerplate at the end of their press releases.
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He churns out variations on the same dreary boilerplate he's been dishing up for years.
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The idea is to force each vendor away from its own boilerplate contract, which favors the supplier over the buyer.
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But boilerplate actually refers to any sequence of keystrokes that is repeated frequently.
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Yet, at some point, moral precepts that appear neither straightforward nor doable become boilerplate that inspires cynicism rather than commitment.
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Even the best word processor may forget what text is stored in each boilerplate macro.
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Generally, the red flags are buried in long paragraphs filled with legal boilerplate that takes a pot of strong coffee to read and understand.
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That absolutely wasn’t done here – rather, it was boilerplated without studying the topic we called it in grad school ‘mailing it in’.
Francois and Dano on Agricultural Yields « Climate Audit
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Still, the show contains a few strong works that escape the usual boilerplate.
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`I swore to Gretchen I wouldn't say a word... "was the standard boilerplate preamble.
SORT OF RICH
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Official meeting pronouncements offer little more than colorless boilerplate.
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Lawyers would have to send a copy of each lawsuit to the state bar, and would have to include new boilerplate in their demand letters advising defendants of their right to consult their own attorney and so forth.
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Art today is rich in witless posturing, philosophical boilerplate, ostentatious anger, and conventional shock.
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Take, for instance, this excerpt from a sample boilerplate contract circulating among human resource managers.
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Your dilation on the legal boilerplate is completely ridiculous.
Thoughts on Opera Unite | FactoryCity
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In times of duress a CEO quickly learns the meaning of all the boilerplate terms and conditions in the preferred-stock agreements, particularly the antidilution clauses.
HIGH TECH START UP
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Some of the best advice we ever got was, ‘Don't innovate on boilerplate.’
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Solanas was thrilled by her status as a soon-to-be-published writer, but it wasn't long before she began obsessing about the seemingly restrictive legal boilerplate of Girodias's contract.
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The provision for observation of the cease - fire was boilerplate.
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Overly broad legal boilerplate is an issue that affects so many places in our world where we deal with big companies that write contracts that govern our interaction.
Google’s Thin-Skinned Lawyers - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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I'm just in a bad mood today, and your post just read, to me, like boilerplate.
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Throw in a large project with a complex domain model, requirements for relational persistence and the usual stacks of requirements that today's enterprise applications offer, you will soon discover that your home made less boilerplated stuff goes for a toss.
Javalobby - The heart of the Java developer community
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The next surprise came when I attempted to install the files and was asked to agree to an End User License Agreement consisting of legal boilerplate.
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We have numerous success stories from all around the company, in reducing boilerplate and making it easier for new engineers to come on board and learn the complex inner workings of legacy code.
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Mostly that's a lot of idiotic legal boilerplate meant to discourage frivolous lawsuits.
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Even though they are boilerplate clauses and ‘non-negotiable,’ they need to be reviewed by the artist to make sure that they can conform.
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McCain is remarkable that way: he understands intuitively that the public has grown tired of platitudinal boilerplate, so he provides his own running commentary on himself, much of it deflationary.
Re: Left Behind - Swampland - TIME.com
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The term ‘idea’ may be pushing it, as the text we've been leaked looks like a standard boilerplate, with no specific data yet entered.
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Take the samples and carry out the required metallurgical tests on your boilerplate.
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The finishing on pipes and joints was of a much higher quality than the prototype I'd last seen; polished brass fittings, varnished wood, a cast-iron boilerplate moulded around the door.
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See my boilerplate author-anthologist contract, which spells out the rights in detail.
John Joseph Adams » 2009 » June
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At the news conference, there was as much if not more discussion of the school's athletic facilities as there was boilerplate praise of an environment intended to be "conducive" to learning.
Winning design for Dunbar High School scores an average grade
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The NAHB wrote boilerplate for such a provision, and 2,000 companies have asked for copies so far.
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As such, the statement is clearly boilerplate, essentially meaningless and of no assistance in determining the actual reasoning of the trial judge in the case before me.
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The language is apparently boilerplate from the publisher, and appears on (among other things) The Wind in the Willows, The Federalist Papers, Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil (good idea, there, especially as to “interpersonal relations,” though have views really changed so much since then?), and Marx & Engels’ Manifesto of the Communist Party.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Quite a Warning Label
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I can tell you, from my many years in the Civil Service, that it is indeed a standard response, "boilerplated" where necessary from standard paragraphs/sections/chunks of text.
A&E petition - Downing Street's woeful response
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He dishes out another piece of pointless boilerplate.
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But boilerplate actually refers to any sequence of keystrokes that is repeated frequently.
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Although some iron, steel, boilerplate, and machinery was smuggled through the blockade, the flow was meager and uncertain.
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You'll note the boilerplate disclaimer by the CEO.
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As theses go, this was shockingly boilerplate stuff - almost like he'd cribbed it off the internet, or a junior researcher.
Times, Sunday Times
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You'll note that the boilerplate text is subtly different.
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`I swore to Gretchen I wouldn't say a word... "was the standard boilerplate preamble.
SORT OF RICH
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In what has become a standard, boilerplated response to a toxic data spill, Citi handed its customers the soothing "we have no evidence that personal data was exposed" line.
Forrester Blogs
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So now, all you lucky people whose names I ordered worked into a rather longish piece of boilerplate latin vocative verse can now share in the tranquil blessings of soft breezes in forested glades, mostly free of singing shrapnel and the deep digestive grunt of artillery.
Archive 2007-06-01
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But having done so -- even with complete ineptitude -- think how smug he could feel after it all blew up, knowing that careful drafting of the offering document by his $1,260-an-hour lawyer had boilerplated the risk, thus keeping him out of prison.
Undefined
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The PR team cobbled together the standard departure boilerplate.
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These Articles aren't the standard legal boilerplate normally used by small companies.
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Now, those words are not, in our respectful submission, mere boilerplate.
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I would guess that there actually is float in the present setup, however, because I'd bet that the payment contracts for e-merchandise have inherited payment terms boilerplated from contracts written for physical merchandise.
Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it
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This language is industry standard boilerplate for enterprise licenses, but it should not have been included in the individual product licenses.
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In such a way, we could add global formatting to our site without having to copy boilerplate text to the top of each file.
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Hacking out that kind of boilerplate is a long way from almost toppling governments, but it beats driving buses, I guess.
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One of the open secrets of contract law is the fact that the contracting parties are not interested in reading the fine print-the "boilerplate" - that fills purchase orders, acknowledgments and other documents that are supposed to be the official record of the contract.
Purchasing - Top Stories
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But all of us have been subjected, as reporters, to barrages of boilerplate coming from a president or a Senator or an official and so forth.
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Unfortunately, the disclosures are hard to read due to legalese and boilerplate language.
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The pictures soon came to symbolize the dispossessed of America during the Depression; to the politically minded, they exposed the truth behind the patriotic boilerplate.
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He has almost zero patience for boilerplate, even though he repeats it.
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Directed by Thomas Kail ( "In the Heights") and based on a book by David Maraniss, an associate editor of The Washington Post, the 90-minute piece is a boilerplate character study that efficiently evokes a roughhewn football life in the mid-1960s, but fails to stir up much in the way of magnetizing drama.
Theater review: 'Time Stands Still' and 'Lombardi' on Broadway
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A lawyer who does that is probably one who is going to force my company’s contract into some misguided boilerplate from a giant formbook.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Case for Abolishing the Bluebook
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We've seen a distinct change in the boilerplate of contracts.
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These are exemplary sentiments, but their expression is surprisingly chaotic, given that the question was a predictable one and the answer is a routine piece of diplomatic boilerplate.
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The DaVinci Code is absolutely, 100% true, and not a bunch of boilerplated nonsense.
Crackpot Medieval "Facts"
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They will have her wired and feed her any information she needs while she delivers a boilerplate beginning and then finishes with some relevant information from the feed. sheesh aka Puck Mule Palin (18: 52: 18):
WordPress.com News
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Analyzing Apple's Boilerplate - A boilerplate is a flexible term used to describe many different things, but Apple's boilerplate is those lines of text that you see at the bottom of each of all its press releases, and it has remained largely unchanged for the past few years.
Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
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In these mature years, he has moved from boilerplate to goldplate, choosing his films with far more care.
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The boilerplate license agreements have been an additional source of aggravation.
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Otherwise, you will much more readily find your way to boilerplate and cliche.
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Platitudes, hortatory admonitions, and boilerplate solutions proffered by such international agencies as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund won't take Africans very far.
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The cardinal's claim, filed in court by his attorneys, is boilerplate legal defense language.
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It's all pretty much standard boilerplate, complete with the usual laundry list of inaccurate quote mining and oversimplified claims.
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John McCain is visibly uncomfortable talking about social issues, and when pressed on them, tends to veer between conservatism-in-a-can boilerplate (“marriage is a unique institution in our society and we have to protect it”) and a kind of jokey admission that he is giving you talking points.
McCain’s Anti-Social Conservatism - Swampland - TIME.com
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Yes, that's a lot of boilerplate sitcom zaniness, but the show frequently rises above the usual humdrum with sharp writing and great character work.
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He's always used liberal rhetoric and programmatic boilerplate to sell himself.
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That seems like total boilerplate.
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That may be campaign boilerplate, but it's also exactly right, and I think it's one of the things that Clark brings to the table.
