cliche

It’s so common it’s become something of a cliche.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

Bernstine finds new notes in a role that typically runs to cliche.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 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

He said while this "sounds like a big cliche", he found that moment emotional and was "very proud to be here and very proud to represent my country".

From BBC ● May 13, 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

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

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 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

"It's cliché but kind of creating and nourishing new life and new growth is just really the circle of life."

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

Moss wished that conversation came easy to him, but as he read the text over and over again, every response he came up with sounded like a cliché.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

Jerry will point out poetic elements of the songs, explain rhythm, similes and metaphors, internal rhymes, clichés, split perspective and different types of rhyme schemes.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026

Occasionally, “Your Mother” indulges in genre clichés, such as gratuitous slow-motion and solemn pronouncements about the warrior’s code.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Like awful writers, large language models are programmed to reach for clichés.

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 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