cut-and-paste
adjective
: pieced together by excerpting and combining fragments from multiple sources
the book was a cut-and-paste job
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Others included the use of cut-and-paste privacy policy documents from Microsoft itself, lending an additional air of authenticity to the emails.
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Davey Winder, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
Private-equity firms have consolidated many small clinics into larger chains, where providers are often saddled with unrealistic billing quotas and cut-and-paste treatment plans.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2024
These are from a cut-and-paste list circulating on the internet.
—Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 4 Feb. 2024
In the show's innovative format, skits can start and end at any time, exploding into silliness or turning into a cut-and-paste cartoon.
—Danny Horn, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2024
Among other things, court records show, the lawyer ignored evidence supplied by Mr. Gamboa, filed a cut-and-paste habeas corpus petition that still bore the name of an earlier client and submitted a brief admitting that his client must lose.
—Adam Liptak, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2024
The machine has no delete buttons, no cut-and-paste.
—David Waldstein Desiree Rios, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
Others are kept down the block, at a space used for shipping and storage, and at a studio on Chrystie Street where Mr. Derian makes decoupage, a type of cut-and-paste art.
—Christopher Barnard, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
The Times-Picayune and other local news outlets had by then dropped the story, so no one was paying attention when the judges found that, aside from a dozen procedural mistakes, Peterson’s cut-and-paste denials had been correct.
—Anat Rubin, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2023
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Davey Winder, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
Private-equity firms have consolidated many small clinics into larger chains, where providers are often saddled with unrealistic billing quotas and cut-and-paste treatment plans.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2024
These are from a cut-and-paste list circulating on the internet.
—Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 4 Feb. 2024
In the show's innovative format, skits can start and end at any time, exploding into silliness or turning into a cut-and-paste cartoon.
—Danny Horn, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2024
Among other things, court records show, the lawyer ignored evidence supplied by Mr. Gamboa, filed a cut-and-paste habeas corpus petition that still bore the name of an earlier client and submitted a brief admitting that his client must lose.
—Adam Liptak, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2024
The machine has no delete buttons, no cut-and-paste.
—David Waldstein Desiree Rios, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
Others are kept down the block, at a space used for shipping and storage, and at a studio on Chrystie Street where Mr. Derian makes decoupage, a type of cut-and-paste art.
—Christopher Barnard, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
The Times-Picayune and other local news outlets had by then dropped the story, so no one was paying attention when the judges found that, aside from a dozen procedural mistakes, Peterson’s cut-and-paste denials had been correct.
—Anat Rubin, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2023
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