cliché
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But the murky situation didn’t stop commenters from falling back on a cliché of cancellation: “I never liked his stuff anyway.”
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
Unlike a Bollywood catchphrase or a cricketing cliché, it isn't coined by scriptwriters or sporting heroes.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
This culinary artist is one of that clan of uncompromising foodie obsessives who are beginning to become a cliché in popular culture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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
Moss wished that conversation came easy to him, but as he read the text over and over again, every response he came up with sounded like a cliché.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
Bernstine finds new notes in a role that typically runs to cliche.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
So, just more peace and love, literally sounds probably very cliche, but peace and love.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
He said while this "sounds like a big cliche", he found that moment emotional and was "very proud to be here and very proud to represent my country".
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
In a two-star review the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw said the movie is "rammed with every music-movie cliche" and plays "like a 127-minute trailer montage".
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
There isn’t a thing Tara says that isn’t a cliche.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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 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
The only “feelings you were allowed to have for your homeland were clichés, kitschy and prefabricated.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 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
Vocabulary lists containing cliché
Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 2
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Reading: Literature - Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Middle School
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