cliche
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“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
So, just more peace and love, literally sounds probably very cliche, but peace and love.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 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
“I know that’s a cliche way to say things, but … he was going to do what Victor was going to do.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
Coach after coach paid him the highest possible praise: they pulled out every possible time-worn cliche to describe him.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
The arts as a vehicle for coming together can be cliché.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
"It might sound cliché but we had to learn a new way of communicating," she says.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
I know it’s a cliché for me to say I go to record stores, but I do.
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
My life there was entirely new, and as near to a cliché as I could make it.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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
“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
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
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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