cliche
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“I don’t know why it became a cliche to say it’s an honor to be nominated, but it’s a hundred percent the truth.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Bernstine finds new notes in a role that typically runs to cliche.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 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
Yet sometimes, he is entirely like the cliche - the long-serving politician who is intensely reluctant to confront accusations of past mistakes.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
And, though I know it is a cliche, I have to say it nevertheless: You ain’t seen nothin yet.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
Calling him an old soul veers a little too close to cliché, but it’s clearly something that he’s heard all of his life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 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
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
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
Yes, it’s trite, but most clichés have an element of truth.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
It’s one of the great clichés of Mexican culture — how our parties always end in tears and worse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
But replacing clichés with something vivid and original is a harder task.
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 unless she is imagined to be more than tired tropes and predictable clichés.
From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
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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