cookie-cutter

Having a similar appearance or seeming identical; created by some standard or common means, often with the implication that the result is common, boring, or not applicable to all needs.

The subdivision was nothing but row after row of cookie-cutter houses.

I don't think a cookie-cutter solution will work in all cases.

Alternative form of cookie cutter.

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Cookie cutters and cake-decorating tools are boxed separately in plastic containers (with lids) so I can stack them up. If you have a large cookie-cutter collection, separate them by holiday or season and package in separate smaller boxes and don't forget to label them accordingly.

To produce, design, or approach something in a formulaic, mass-produced or unoriginal manner, often ensuring all the outputs are identical.

Ever since USA Today arrived with its bar graphs, its color-coded weather maps (red means hot, boys and girls!), its stick-figure journalism, its pages cookie-cuttered by brights and factoids and its expert trivializing of everything from wars to nutrition, the craft of newspapering meant nothing more than making sure the percentages took up an accurate slice of the pie chart.

in arts funding, and possibly cookie-cuttering the program in other Blue Fish locations across the country.