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noun

boilerplate

standardized text or templates reused across documents with little modification

In a sentence

Six example sentences with boilerplate, each labelled with its topic.

  • The last two pages of the lease were boilerplate, identical to every other agreement the management company issued.

    Law

  • Half the campaign's press release was boilerplate, the same three paragraphs the party sends out after every committee vote.

    Politics

  • New projects begin with hundreds of lines of boilerplate that nobody reads and every developer copies from the last repository.

    Technology

  • The risk section of the prospectus was boilerplate, forty pages of warnings that every fund copies from its last filing.

    Finance

  • Investors skip the boilerplate on a pitch deck's final slide, since the same disclaimers appear in every deck they see.

    Startups

  • The methods paragraph was pure boilerplate, lifted word for word from the lab's previous six papers.

    Science

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