cliche

It’s so common it’s become something of a cliche.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

“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

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

“I can’t believe I have a crush on a girl with such cliche wishes.”

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

“I’d vote for a woman, just not that woman” is a dark cliché for a reason.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

“Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come,” goes another cliché of history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

"Has my diagnosis taught me any lessons valuable enough to pass on? The cliché is live each day as if it's your last and treasure every moment."

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

This month, born of a well-known art-world cliché that has long captured our imagination, Kelly tackles no less than the corps of unidentified women in the canon of Western art.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

The ship, as the cliché says, was very small, and on the ship, I was correspondingly even more tiny, so that one would think I would feel dwarfed, alienated in some way.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen

“When my daughter was born, like many new parents, I found I could only think in clichés, and I didn’t try to resist them,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

Like awful writers, large language models are programmed to reach for clichés.

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 unless she is imagined to be more than tired tropes and predictable clichés.

From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan