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“It sounds cliche, but the walls between our communities literally burned to the ground,” Bernstein said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 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

Yet sometimes, he is entirely like the cliche - the long-serving politician who is intensely reluctant to confront accusations of past mistakes.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026

Just because it's a cliche doesn't mean it isn't true.

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2026

And if you must use a cliche, why not word it in a way that makes physical sense?

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

He went on to form The Smiths with Morrissey in 1982, defining an entire era of indie music with his intricate, chiming tones - rooted in British pop, while stubbornly avoiding cliché.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

Like the cliché, there’s two sides to a story, ya know?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 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

It’s a cliché, sure, but for good reason: the kitchen really is the heart of the home.

From Salon ● May 5, 2026

It’s all a little cliché for my tastes—the words on the phone, the silly smile I can’t get rid of—but so is being seventeen and unkissed.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

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

There’s an old joke that Shakespeare is full of clichés, and it’s funny because he invented them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

Somehow, McCarthy’s assurance makes these clichés seem new again, donning them as naturally as O’Connell’s gawky bellboy wearing an old-fashioned red cap.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026

Lyrically, Kahan is reckoning with his newfound fame – without recycling hoary old clichés where "every hotel room looks the same" and "nobody understands the real me".

From BBC ● Apr. 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