cliche
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Bernstine finds new notes in a role that typically runs to cliche.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Describing a result as a 'victory for football' might seem like a trite cliche - but you won't find many neutrals disagreeing with that description of Spain's win in the 2026 World Cup final.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 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
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
An even worse cliche, Generation X, is already degenerating. get nowhere fast.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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
To do that takes humans able to express themselves without reaching for the nearest cliché.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
That might be a cliché, but this time it’s literally true.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
He went on to form The Smiths with Morrissey in 1982, defining an entire era of indie music with his intricate, chiming tones - rooted in British pop, while stubbornly avoiding cliché.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
I thought it was just a corny cliché when I first heard that expression, but I think it actually applies to Coach right about now, which makes me sort of sad.
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
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 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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