formulaic
Example Sentences
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“They’re often dry, formulaic and almost meaningless. It’s better if you tell your own story.”
From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026
Fruit is an absurd but also simple way to reflect the formulaic, sensationalist and stereotypical world of dating reality TV, Lupinacci said.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
“Kim’s Convenience” has an eager-to-please TV sensibility that can seem formulaic at times.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
Social media has become chockablock with people selling things in often formulaic ways.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
Visual analysis can help us to appreciate the beauty of a masterpiece, but we must be careful not to use a formulaic approach that would trivialize it.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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