cliche
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“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
I'm 50, and this is not a rehearsal, as cliche as that sounds.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 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
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
That might be a cliché, but this time it’s literally true.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
I know it’s a cliché for me to say I go to record stores, but I do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
It made me feel like a straight-up cliché, man.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
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 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
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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