cliche
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It’s a cliche: He lit up a room, but he really was everybody’s best friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
One of the charms of baseball is a cliche: Anything can happen — in a single game or in a short series.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
It’s so common it’s become something of a cliche.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
"It is what it is. Same old cliche a decade later. Keep running you little cowards," he added.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
It was then that I first understood the cliche of feeling the cold in one’s bones.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
In one of those climactic courtroom confrontations that have long since become cinematic cliché, Mr. Firstman pulls out the classic move of a desperate actor by crying profusely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
“I’d vote for a woman, just not that woman” is a dark cliché for a reason.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
Against the risks of didacticism — or, God forbid, “preachiness” — I’ll take the productive tension of the occasional cliché or bald statement of purpose.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 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
My life there was entirely new, and as near to a cliché as I could make it.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Jerry will point out poetic elements of the songs, explain rhythm, similes and metaphors, internal rhymes, clichés, split perspective and different types of rhyme schemes.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026
She didn’t fight the dumb clichés that early on gathered around her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Eve resists scream-queen clichés, but Gemma’s boringly typical tortured backstory is as flat as her wan chemistry with Nick.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 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
Vocabulary lists containing cliche
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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