cliché

Calling him an old soul veers a little too close to cliché, but it’s clearly something that he’s heard all of his life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

"It's cliché but kind of creating and nourishing new life and new growth is just really the circle of life."

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

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

That might be a cliché, but this time it’s literally true.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026

It made me feel like a straight-up cliché, man.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña

"It is what it is. Same old cliche a decade later. Keep running you little cowards," he added.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Bernstine finds new notes in a role that typically runs to cliche.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

Football is a funny old game, as the cliche goes.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

But it seemed like such a cliche after what we’d just done.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

Yes, it’s trite, but most clichés have an element of truth.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

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 replacing clichés with something vivid and original is a harder task.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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

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