cliche

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

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

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

Football is a funny old game, as the cliche goes.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

Here is another cliche my creative writing teacher would have scoffed at; like father, like son.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

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

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 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

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

I hate the cliché that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, because covers say so much about what’s inside.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez

“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

But replacing clichés with something vivid and original is a harder task.

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