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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

“This is gonna sound like a cliche, but if you build it, they will come,” Bitar said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

In a two-star review the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw said the movie is "rammed with every music-movie cliche" and plays "like a 127-minute trailer montage".

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

And you’ll often be surprised, and your writing will be livelier, if you take a few seconds to look up the original wording of a cliche.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

"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

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

"It might sound cliché but we had to learn a new way of communicating," she says.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

Epstein may have seemed the sober face of Beatlemania, but the bare facts of his trajectory are a rock-star cliché.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Moss wished that conversation came easy to him, but as he read the text over and over again, every response he came up with sounded like a cliché.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

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

There’s an old joke that Shakespeare is full of clichés, and it’s funny because he invented them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

“Rollins hates clichés and signature phrases — ‘licks’ — and refuses to play them,” critic Stanley Crouch wrote in the New Yorker in 2005.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 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