standard-issue
adjective
stan·dard-is·sue
ˈstan-dərd-ˈi-(ˌ)shü 
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another standard-issue thriller with a man on the run desperately trying to find the baddie who framed him for murder
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No standard-issue heartthrob, Law began his career as a veritable emblem of intimidating, unattainable, sometimes self-sabotaging male beauty.
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Guy Lodge, Variety, 12 Dec. 2024
There are no close-ups with the victims or the villains or the rest of the German security team that barges into the movie like standard-issue action heroes only to retreat a beat later.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
On Wednesday, prosecutors had walked jurors through workings of the Taser, a standard-issue stun gun for law enforcement manufactured by Axon.
—Cristóbal Reyes, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2024
Through the deliberately standard-issue story of an amateur criminal (Michael Fassbender) trying to arrange a $20 million drug shipment from a Ciudad Juárez cartel, McCarthy stares into the abyss of human evil and the abyss stares back, pitilessly.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2024
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Guy Lodge, Variety, 12 Dec. 2024
There are no close-ups with the victims or the villains or the rest of the German security team that barges into the movie like standard-issue action heroes only to retreat a beat later.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
On Wednesday, prosecutors had walked jurors through workings of the Taser, a standard-issue stun gun for law enforcement manufactured by Axon.
—Cristóbal Reyes, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2024
Through the deliberately standard-issue story of an amateur criminal (Michael Fassbender) trying to arrange a $20 million drug shipment from a Ciudad Juárez cartel, McCarthy stares into the abyss of human evil and the abyss stares back, pitilessly.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2024
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“Standard-issue.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/standard-issue. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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