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cliche

[klee-shey, kli-] / kliˈʃeɪ, klɪ- /


cliché


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“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

“This is gonna sound like a cliche, but if you build it, they will come,” Bitar said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

At the risk of sounding like a cliche, it's simply the truth.

From BBC Jul. 3, 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

And so began her heady days full of cliche: she felt fully alive, her heart beat faster when he arrived at her door, and she viewed each morning like the unwrapping of a gift.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

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

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

In his hands, that old chop-socky cliché where a circle of ninjas challenges the hero one at a time becomes a sphere of ninjas simultaneously engulfing the hero from above and below.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2026

“I think everyone dreams of leaving home, but trust me, the cliché is true: I’ve been a lot of places and there really is no place like home.”

From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson

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

Recognizing that the film-noir genre, to which “Point Blank” loosely belongs, had become reliant on melodramatic clichés, Mr. Boorman practiced the fine art of removal.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 15, 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




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