cliche
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It’s so common it’s become something of a cliche.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
"It is what it is. Same old cliche a decade later. Keep running you little cowards," he added.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 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
“This is gonna sound like a cliche, but if you build it, they will come,” Bitar said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Any cliche you've ever heard used to describe Clint Eastwood, those were Eleanor's eyes.
From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell
“I’d vote for a woman, just not that woman” is a dark cliché for a reason.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
“Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come,” goes another cliché of history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
It’s become a cliché that journalists ought to speak truth to power.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
The silence, for once, may merit the cliché “deafening.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
And because I’ve turned into an actual cliché, I jump straight into the whole routine.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
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
“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
She didn’t fight the dumb clichés that early on gathered around her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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
Vocabulary lists containing cliche
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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