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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

It’s so common it’s become something of a cliche.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

“I’m very grateful for life. It’s so cliche to say, you don’t know the time nor the hour, but it’s true, and it just helped me put a lot of things in perspective,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

At the risk of sounding like a cliche, it's simply the truth.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

But it seemed like such a cliche after what we’d just done.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

In music that in parts borders on cliché thanks to overexposure, Mr. Petrenko and the orchestra offered a rigorous, thoughtful and honest performance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

It’s become a cliché that journalists ought to speak truth to power.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

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 cliché but kind of creating and nourishing new life and new growth is just really the circle of life."

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

If I’d dreamed up this mise-en-scène, I would’ve thought it a cliché.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

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