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And while I won’t go so far as to use a trite phrase like, 40s are the new 30s, well…You catch my drift.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

Though it seems trite to say it, the truth about politics and investing is somewhere in the middle.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026

Stocks, indexes, and call-option implied volatility are advancing to ever-higher highs, despite innumerable risks that are almost too trite to mention.

From Barron's ● May 13, 2026

It may sound trite to say that football is more than a game, but for those who remained in Ukraine, it is important to see representatives of their country succeed on the international stage.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026

Good luck sounds so trite and pointless in the face of this.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

The resultant essay, titled “E Unibus Pluram,” took special pains not to descend into lazy “anti-TV paranoia,” “far cruder and triter than what the critics complain about.”

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2015

The “life lessons that our innocent hero learns may sound like the tritest of homilies,” Stephen Holden wrote in his review for The Times.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2018

The tritest way is that we get to inhabit other lands, other customs, other personalities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2016

Maybe every writer is doomed to have their tritest sentence become their most-tweeted, but in Joan Didion’s case, it feels particularly unfair that “we tell ourselves stories in order to live” has become so ubiquitous.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2015

The tritest of all exercises in voyeuristic celebrity worship, that flimsy fold-up guide to the homes of actors and actresses represents the ultimate divide between the “haves” and “have-nots.”

From Washington Times ● Feb. 25, 2015

As a rule, she chooses the tritest topics, but she gives them a novelty and grace of her own.

From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert