cliche

“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

So, just more peace and love, literally sounds probably very cliche, but peace and love.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

I'm 50, and this is not a rehearsal, as cliche as that sounds.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 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

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

That might be a cliché, but this time it’s literally true.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026

"It might sound cliché but we had to learn a new way of communicating," she says.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

Maybe that’s true, but cliché platitudes rarely help.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

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

“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