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cliche

[klee-shey, kli-] / kliˈʃeɪ, klɪ- /


cliché


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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

Just because it's a cliche doesn't mean it isn't true.

From BBC Jan. 3, 2026

In the 2020 miniseries “Hollywood,” Ryan Murphy’s alternate history of the 1930s picture business, the studio head he plays is not the desk-banger of cliche, but he is a man with an appetite.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 15, 2025

You dismiss it as a cliche, but the problem is it’s true.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

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

And while it details Jewish participation in, and influence on, global soccer, it also challenges the cliché that Jews were intellectuals, artists and laborers but not athletes.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2026

The confluence of Day’s songs, Herrmann’s score and Benjamin’s cantata demolished the cliché of cinema music needing to stay in the background.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 24, 2026

I hate the cliché that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, because covers say so much about what’s inside.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez

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

Somehow, McCarthy’s assurance makes these clichés seem new again, donning them as naturally as O’Connell’s gawky bellboy wearing an old-fashioned red cap.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 30, 2026

Lyrically, Kahan is reckoning with his newfound fame – without recycling hoary old clichés where "every hotel room looks the same" and "nobody understands the real me".

From BBC Apr. 25, 2026

Recognizing that the film-noir genre, to which “Point Blank” loosely belongs, had become reliant on melodramatic clichés, Mr. Boorman practiced the fine art of removal.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 15, 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




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