cliché-ridden
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Their intended audience includes national security bureaucrats in the U.S. and abroad and the think-tankers and journalists obliged by a sense of professional responsibility to at least scan these generally leaden, cliché-ridden products of groupthink.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025
"The vast majority of profile texts still appear cliché-ridden and generic and show a high level of predictability," the authors point out.
From Salon • Dec. 15, 2022
Komische Oper, however, has little to fear from Christof Loy’s gory production of a cliché-ridden opera with a gloomy modernist score.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2017
As cliché-ridden as that conceit sounds at the outset, the film is a bit smarter than to just go through the motions before arriving at its conclusion.
From The Verge • Jul. 18, 2014
No dice: Stahl must reluctantly pass that office and find the hack with the cliché-ridden “Après la Guerre” script.
From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2012
