cliché-ridden
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Their intended audience includes national security bureaucrats in the U.S. and abroad and the think-tankers and journalists obliged by a sense of professional responsibility to at least scan these generally leaden, cliché-ridden products of groupthink.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
"The vast majority of profile texts still appear cliché-ridden and generic and show a high level of predictability."
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2022
How do you turn a cliché-ridden comic book character into a distinctly Asian American superhero?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2021
It’s equally difficult to think of many actors who could handle Joy’s cliché-ridden, melodramatically engorged dialogue, which consistently trips up her actors.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2021
Right from the start, the geek community had their worst fears about this show confirmed: based on how it began, The Big Bang Theory promised to be a cliché-ridden weekly mockery of all things nerdy.
From The Verge ● Aug. 30, 2018
