First used only in attributive position and without degrees of comparison (from the 1920s). Then used freely in predicate position (from the 1990s).
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Some speakers avoid using this in the predicate position.
First used only in attributive position and without degrees of comparison (from the 1920s); then used freely in predicate position (from the 1990s). Some speakers avoid using it in the predicate position.
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1916, ad in The Ladies' Home Journal, volume 33, page 87:
Let Us Send You a Trial Package
Ten cents (stamps or coin) will bring you a One-Cake package, enough for a nice “company cake," and we will include a 10c Dromedary Cookie-Cutter and a Cook Book of Choice Cocoanut[sic] Recipes.
The Hills Brothers Co. Dept. B, 375 Washington Street New York
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2013, Rom Harre, Great Scientific Experiments: Twenty Experiments that Changed our View of the World (Courier Corporation, →ISBN):
In the passive condition the hand was held palm upwards and the cookie-cutters were pressed on to the sensitive skin of the palm. In the active condition it was the finger tips which were mainly in contact with the cookie-cutter.
The subdivision was nothing but row after row of cookie-cutter houses.
I don't think a cookie-cutter solution will work in all cases.
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1997, Miller, Herb. Leadership is the Key: Unlocking Your Effectiveness in Ministry. Page 39.
All clergy need to know the basics of Bible, theology, Christian education, and church history. Their training is therefore more cookie-cutter than individualized.
"Everything we do is planned and predictable. In the end, medicine is much more cookie-cutter than doctors care to admit, and we can exploit that."
2006, Paul Wesson and Paul Halpern. Brave New Universe: Illuminating the Darkest Secrets of the Cosmos. Page 195
Yet nature's artisan seems to have crafted untold quantities of protons (and other elementary particles) with identical rest masses. They are infinitely more “cookie cutter” than anything in a cookie manufacturer's wildest dreams.
I wanted to find somewhere to live that was unique because everything is very cookie-cutter if you go down most residential streets of Victorian terraces.
“I think Arlington is very cookie cutter,” she said. “I think you find that the same type of people have the same type of conversations with people over and over again.”
"This was an opportunity to imagine something different," Spiegel said. "It's all about patterns of living. The way people are building houses is so cookie-cutter."
2018, Christopher Phillips. A Child at Heart: Unlocking Your Creativity, Curiosity, and Reason at Every Age and Stage of Life. Page 138.
He was sad the most everything done by tailors these days is so cookie-cutter, like it all came off the assembly line.
Usage notes
First used only in attributive position and without degrees of comparison (from the 1920s); then used freely in predicate position (from the 1990s). Some speakers avoid using it in the predicate position.
