cliche
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It’s a cliche: He lit up a room, but he really was everybody’s best friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
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
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
We smile at expressions like these out of relief, because were braced for the numbing cliche that fails to arrive.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
“I’d vote for a woman, just not that woman” is a dark cliché for a reason.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
Any moment that threatens to turn to cliché, turns another way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 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
"It's cliché but kind of creating and nourishing new life and new growth is just really the circle of life."
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
I hate the cliché that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, because covers say so much about what’s inside.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
“When my daughter was born, like many new parents, I found I could only think in clichés, and I didn’t try to resist them,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Yes, it’s trite, but most clichés have an element of truth.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Enter artificial intelligence, which can flag clichés by analyzing the frequency at which figures of speech occur in data sets.
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
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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