cliche

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

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

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

So, just more peace and love, literally sounds probably very cliche, but peace and love.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

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

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

The arts as a vehicle for coming together can be cliché.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Unlike a Bollywood catchphrase or a cricketing cliché, it isn't coined by scriptwriters or sporting heroes.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Epstein may have seemed the sober face of Beatlemania, but the bare facts of his trajectory are a rock-star cliché.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

“And it’s not about stereotypical girl topics written in sappy, cliché ways.”

From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan

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

“Rollins hates clichés and signature phrases — ‘licks’ — and refuses to play them,” critic Stanley Crouch wrote in the New Yorker in 2005.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

The only “feelings you were allowed to have for your homeland were clichés, kitschy and prefabricated.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 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