cliche
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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
“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
At the risk of sounding like a cliche, it's simply the truth.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
Any cliche you've ever heard used to describe Clint Eastwood, those were Eleanor's eyes.
From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell
At the movies, the PTSD-suffering veteran is a familiar figure, bordering on cliché.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 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
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
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
Like awful writers, large language models are programmed to reach for clichés.
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
By avoiding clichés and featuring a mostly Black cast, Rae’s mission for Hoorae’s new venture is simple: defy expectations and tell a great story.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 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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