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by-numbers

adjective

  1. informal.
    done in an uninspired, simplistic, or formulaic way
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of by-numbers1

C20: from painting by numbers , a method of painting a picture in which the colours to be used are indicated by numbers
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Speaking in 2018 with the actor Brian Tyree Henry, of the FX series “Atlanta,†he upended what might have been a by-numbers exchange by asking how Henry ordered his hash browns.

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But the list of scares for Sean Dyche’s side, looking a by-numbers version of their redoubtable selves in torrential conditions, extended no further and they had one more sight of their own when Holding blocked a meaty Rodriguez volley.

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Moore is right: that would be a tediously by-numbers film.

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But this I do know: You have a first-class education from a first-class school, and so you need not, probably cannot live a paint- by-numbers life.

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Commitment wanders and the by-numbers ballads creep in.

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