cliche
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“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
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
“I know that’s a cliche way to say things, but … he was going to do what Victor was going to do.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
I'm 50, and this is not a rehearsal, as cliche as that sounds.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026
You dismiss it as a cliche, but the problem is it’s true.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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
Unlike a Bollywood catchphrase or a cricketing cliché, it isn't coined by scriptwriters or sporting heroes.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
But Morocco came through, and as the cliché goes, the mark of a great team is that they know how to win ugly.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
To do that takes humans able to express themselves without reaching for the nearest cliché.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
My life there was entirely new, and as near to a cliché as I could make it.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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
Somehow, McCarthy’s assurance makes these clichés seem new again, donning them as naturally as O’Connell’s gawky bellboy wearing an old-fashioned red cap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 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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