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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A boilerplate is a sentence, paragraph, or entire section of text that is used in many different documents.
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But boilerplate actually refers to any sequence of keystrokes that is repeated frequently.
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Even the best word processor may forget what text is stored in each boilerplate macro.
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Other than the quaint little town waiting to get buried, what boilerplate ingredients do we have?
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Precedent 3 is intentionally a minimalist document, which contains little boilerplate , and little by way of exclusion clauses.