cliche
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“I’m very grateful for life. It’s so cliche to say, you don’t know the time nor the hour, but it’s true, and it just helped me put a lot of things in perspective,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
At the risk of sounding like a cliche, it's simply the truth.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
So, just more peace and love, literally sounds probably very cliche, but peace and love.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
“I know that’s a cliche way to say things, but … he was going to do what Victor was going to do.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
It’s a cliche, all right, but it’s better than spinning your wheels. get the show on the road.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
It’s called New People, and its program is a set of cliché slogans such as “not revolution, but evolution.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
The arts as a vehicle for coming together can be cliché.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
But Morocco came through, and as the cliché goes, the mark of a great team is that they know how to win ugly.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
That might be a cliché, but this time it’s literally true.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
Moss wished that conversation came easy to him, but as he read the text over and over again, every response he came up with sounded like a cliché.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
She didn’t fight the dumb clichés that early on gathered around her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Yes, it’s trite, but most clichés have an element of truth.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
But DC’s latest installment lands like a big hunk of Kryptonite for the dream of a superhero franchise that can transcend the genre’s clichés, Slate’s Dana Stevens writes.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
By avoiding clichés and featuring a mostly Black cast, Rae’s mission for Hoorae’s new venture is simple: defy expectations and tell a great story.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
Not just with objective wonder at the rising of a truth, fragmentary or not, up through what often seemed to be an impenetrable mass of prejudices, clichés, and bromides.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
Vocabulary lists containing cliche
Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 2
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Reading: Literature - Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Middle School
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