cliche

One of the charms of baseball is a cliche: Anything can happen — in a single game or in a short series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 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

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

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

With an allergy to abstraction and a phobia of cliche, Wilkerson trains a magnifying glass on the historical blob called “the Great Migration” and reveals the humanity of the people who compose it.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

"Has my diagnosis taught me any lessons valuable enough to pass on? The cliché is live each day as if it's your last and treasure every moment."

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 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

If I’d dreamed up this mise-en-scène, I would’ve thought it a cliché.

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

Yes, it’s trite, but most clichés have an element of truth.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

But replacing clichés with something vivid and original is a harder task.

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

“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

Not unless she is imagined to be more than tired tropes and predictable clichés.

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