cliche
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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
“It sounds cliche, but the walls between our communities literally burned to the ground,” Bernstein said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
The cliche, 'anybody can beat anybody' in the Premier League is closer to the truth than in La Liga or the Bundesliga.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
With an allergy to abstraction and a phobia of cliche, Wilkerson trains a magnifying glass on the historical blob called “the Great Migration” and reveals the humanity of the people who compose it.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
But Morocco came through, and as the cliché goes, the mark of a great team is that they know how to win ugly.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
That might be a cliché, but this time it’s literally true.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
Like the cliché, there’s two sides to a story, ya know?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
I know it’s a cliché for me to say I go to record stores, but I do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 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
Yes, it’s trite, but most clichés have an element of truth.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Enter artificial intelligence, which can flag clichés by analyzing the frequency at which figures of speech occur in data sets.
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
By avoiding clichés and featuring a mostly Black cast, Rae’s mission for Hoorae’s new venture is simple: defy expectations and tell a great story.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 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 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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