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cliche

[klee-shey, kli-] / kliˈʃeɪ, klɪ- /


cliché


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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

“This is gonna sound like a cliche, but if you build it, they will come,” Bitar said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

At the risk of sounding like a cliche, it's simply the truth.

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

“It sounds cliche, but the walls between our communities literally burned to the ground,” Bernstein said.

From Los Angeles Times May 20, 2026

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

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

To do that takes humans able to express themselves without reaching for the nearest cliché.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

"It might sound cliché but we had to learn a new way of communicating," she says.

From BBC Jun. 25, 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

It’s a cliché, sure, but for good reason: the kitchen really is the heart of the home.

From Salon May 5, 2026

And because I’ve turned into an actual cliché, I jump straight into the whole routine.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

It’s one of the great clichés of Mexican culture — how our parties always end in tears and worse.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 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

There’s an old joke that Shakespeare is full of clichés, and it’s funny because he invented them.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 21, 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

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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