How to Use clear-cut in a Sentence

clear-cut

adjective

• Still, Paras told himself that the case was far from clear-cut.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
• As for the food, the spicy queso sandwich is the clear-cut winner.
  — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Mar. 2024
• This is the big question—and one that doesn’t have a clear-cut answer.
  — Brian Underwood, Women's Health, 31 July 2023
• The law on self-defense isn’t as clear-cut here as in other states.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 17 July 2023
• This time around, the circumstances aren’t quite as clear-cut.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
• Partial and clear-cut forests are also great places to look.
  — Gary Garth and Matt Every, Outdoor Life, 18 Apr. 2023
• As far as whether to sell a home as a hip pocket, there is not a clear-cut answer.
  — Ryan Conner, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2023
• Those all seem more serious and in some ways clear-cut than the Daniels matter.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
• France’s Victor Wembanyama is the clear-cut No. 1 pick and has been for some time.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 17 May 2023
• For folks who keep a kosher or halal diet, the issue is a bit less clear-cut.
  — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 30 June 2023
• But like the subject of Over Vitebsk, which not everyone agrees on, the case isn’t so clear-cut.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 12 Feb. 2024
• Just as with dine-in tips, Lynn does not have a clear-cut answer about an exact amount to tip for takeout.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 6 Aug. 2023
• The answer isn’t so clear-cut, recruiters tell Fortune.
  — Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2023
• Just a little bit later, the story isn’t looking so clear-cut.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
• The crackdown on vendors who use free speech claims to skirt city rules is less clear-cut, officials said.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2023
• In those cases that aren’t as clear-cut, here are three questions to ask yourself about your diet, Rollin and Mokari said.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 2 Apr. 2024
• Although this simple answer may be right most of the time, there may also be cases in which things are not quite so clear-cut.
  — Matthew Fisher, Scientific American, 2 Jan. 2018
• But the lines between such videos and propaganda are not always clear-cut.
  — Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
• Unlike an expertly butchered piece of chicken or steak, the answer isn’t clear-cut.
  — Sarah Garone, Health, 30 June 2023
• For RedBird, the consequences of failing to build a stadium are less clear-cut.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2024
• But other times, one goaltender’s performance would surpass the other and call for a clear-cut starter.
  — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 13 Jan. 2024
• By this standard, the case for cooperation with an India or a Poland is clear-cut.
  — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• But if the swiftness of the decision seemed clear-cut and ringingly decisive, the verdict proved less so.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2023
• That off-the-cuff duet in 2014 opened their eyes to a world of musical possibilities, but their path forward wasn’t easy or clear-cut.
  — Natalie Weiner, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
• More clear-cut was that seeing a chronological feed drove users to spend their time elsewhere online.
  — WIRED, 27 July 2023
• But the reality of executing this plan was far from clear-cut.
  — Ann Roberts, Fortune, 16 May 2023
• But the American obsession with this now-ubiquitous side is more clear-cut.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
• Williams’ feelings towards retirement have not been clear-cut.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2023
• And a lot of the private timber lands in America had been clear-cut already, and those national forests were the site of all of this industrial logging.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024
• And there is virtually no way to prove whether any GM is engaging in service-time manipulation, and this case isn’t clear-cut the way others have been in the past.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 23 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024