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quick-and-dirty



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The Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, has become a quick-and-dirty way to quantify caution.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

If you need the quick-and-dirty on Big Tech's preeminent New Right libertarian — and without a doubt the leading gay conservative of our time — look no further.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2023

In a sense, the use of commonplace properties when details are missing is a type of heuristic — it is a quick-and-dirty strategy that will often work well but sometimes fail.

From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2021

The quick-and-dirty headline is Wall Street reacting to the North Korean nuclear test.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2016

A temporary addition to a piece of code, usually as a quick-and-dirty remedy to an existing bug or misfeature.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.




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