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Discover LudwigThe phrase "all clear cut" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct expression is "all clear-cut," which means something is clearly defined or unambiguous.
Example: "The rules for the competition are all clear-cut, so there should be no confusion among the participants."
Alternatives: "completely straightforward" or "entirely unambiguous."
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"But more than that, it allowed me to make a lot of connections in the science community". "In the classroom, you're learning the science, [and] you think it's all clear cut, and [that] we know everything about what's going on," said Sarah Ricklan CC'18, a pre-med evolutionary biology of the human species major who studied cell competition last summer.
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It wasn't all clear-cut.
None of this argues that the issues are all clear-cut.
"Some of the debates around the legality of the war are quite sophisticated – it is not all clear-cut," the senior legal figure said.
All clear-cuts had been managed as production forests for at least 80 120 years.
In 2005, all clear-cuts made during 1990 2000 and random samples of young and old forest stands were inventoried in transects across the landscape.
They were all clear-cut too.
But the law as applied isn't at all clear-cut.
However, the virgin timber which supplied the local tanneries and sawmills was all clear-cut within several years of the flood.
In all clear-cut CCD-positive patients tested, BAT analyses conducted with CCD-reduced GTI foodstuff revealed diminished effector-cell triggering to various extents.
Diabetes, breast cancer, and arthritis are all clear-cut conditions that everyone recognizes, but sepsis can be a vague term, indicative of infection, blood poisoning, septicemia, etc.
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