cliché
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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
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
Gary Fenton and Billy Koch have been sports fans long enough to know the cliché about Father Time being undefeated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
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
It made me feel like a straight-up cliché, man.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
“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
At the risk of sounding like a cliche, it's simply the truth.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
“It sounds cliche, but the walls between our communities literally burned to the ground,” Bernstein said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
Yet sometimes, he is entirely like the cliche - the long-serving politician who is intensely reluctant to confront accusations of past mistakes.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
The best thing to be said about this cliche is that it’s better than being taken to the cleaners.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Yes, it’s trite, but most clichés have an element of truth.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 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
Somehow, McCarthy’s assurance makes these clichés seem new again, donning them as naturally as O’Connell’s gawky bellboy wearing an old-fashioned red cap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
Certain clichés and hiccups aside, however, “Apex” is spectacular.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 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 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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