boiler plate
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The specific assignments seem relatively low-level boiler plate that was heavily informed by the detailed instructions.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2023
The FRC beefed up its decade-old stewardship code in 2020 to stop "boiler plate" statements about investment decision-making that it said did little to show if investors were getting value for money.
From Reuters ● Sep. 5, 2021
These two ideas are practically boiler plate at this point in the pandemic.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2020
Your comment is heart-felt but it is heavy on boiler plate rhetoric and short on facts.
From Economist ● Dec. 18, 2013
A strange example of depending on the stone foundation for not simply support, but to resist strain, may be found in the machines used for beveling the edges of boiler plate.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various
