cliche

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Football is a funny old game, as the cliche goes.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 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

While everyone on the tour is clearly working at maximum capacity, there's only one person at the front of it all - and what's the old cliche... with great power comes great responsibility?

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025

And she didn’t even care if that was a cliche.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

That might be a cliché, but this time it’s literally true.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026

He went on to form The Smiths with Morrissey in 1982, defining an entire era of indie music with his intricate, chiming tones - rooted in British pop, while stubbornly avoiding cliché.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

In his hands, that old chop-socky cliché where a circle of ninjas challenges the hero one at a time becomes a sphere of ninjas simultaneously engulfing the hero from above and below.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

The confluence of Day’s songs, Herrmann’s score and Benjamin’s cantata demolished the cliché of cinema music needing to stay in the background.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

“Stop thinking about Nick, stop thinking about Garrett, and definitely stop thinking about if it's a cliché to kiss on prom night.”

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

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

Lyrically, Kahan is reckoning with his newfound fame – without recycling hoary old clichés where "every hotel room looks the same" and "nobody understands the real me".

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026

Recognizing that the film-noir genre, to which “Point Blank” loosely belongs, had become reliant on melodramatic clichés, Mr. Boorman practiced the fine art of removal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 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