cliché
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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
This culinary artist is one of that clan of uncompromising foodie obsessives who are beginning to become a cliché in popular culture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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
The ship, as the cliché says, was very small, and on the ship, I was correspondingly even more tiny, so that one would think I would feel dwarfed, alienated in some way.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
"It is what it is. Same old cliche a decade later. Keep running you little cowards," he added.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
“I don’t know why it became a cliche to say it’s an honor to be nominated, but it’s a hundred percent the truth.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Bernstine finds new notes in a role that typically runs to cliche.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 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
Any cliche you've ever heard used to describe Clint Eastwood, those were Eleanor's eyes.
From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell
Eve resists scream-queen clichés, but Gemma’s boringly typical tortured backstory is as flat as her wan chemistry with Nick.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
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
Like most clichés, this one contains truth, but its expression sounds like an excuse to keep quiet and do nothing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 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
Vocabulary lists containing cliché
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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