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"It is what it is. Same old cliche a decade later. Keep running you little cowards," he added.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Bernstine finds new notes in a role that typically runs to cliche.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

“It sounds cliche, but the walls between our communities literally burned to the ground,” Bernstein said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

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

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026

You dismiss it as a cliche, but the problem is it’s true.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

But the murky situation didn’t stop commenters from falling back on a cliché of cancellation: “I never liked his stuff anyway.”

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

Gary Fenton and Billy Koch have been sports fans long enough to know the cliché about Father Time being undefeated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

It’s called New People, and its program is a set of cliché slogans such as “not revolution, but evolution.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

The arts as a vehicle for coming together can be cliché.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

My life there was entirely new, and as near to a cliché as I could make it.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 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

Like most clichés, this one contains truth, but its expression sounds like an excuse to keep quiet and do nothing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

Somehow, McCarthy’s assurance makes these clichés seem new again, donning them as naturally as O’Connell’s gawky bellboy wearing an old-fashioned red cap.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 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