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If that were an innovative idea, we’d have been worshipping at the heels of last year’s equally topical yet no less trite sci-fi horror “Companion.”

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

She isn’t alone in finding the “follow your passion” mantra tired and trite.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

Stocks, indexes, and call-option implied volatility are advancing to ever-higher highs, despite innumerable risks that are almost too trite to mention.

From Barron's ● May 13, 2026

It may sound trite to say that football is more than a game, but for those who remained in Ukraine, it is important to see representatives of their country succeed on the international stage.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026

“Plenty of fish in the sea” was too trite.

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan

The resultant essay, titled “E Unibus Pluram,” took special pains not to descend into lazy “anti-TV paranoia,” “far cruder and triter than what the critics complain about.”

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2015

The “life lessons that our innocent hero learns may sound like the tritest of homilies,” Stephen Holden wrote in his review for The Times.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2018

I ask her the tritest question of them all next – what advice would you give to others who are struggling?

From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2018

The tritest way is that we get to inhabit other lands, other customs, other personalities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2016

The tritest of all exercises in voyeuristic celebrity worship, that flimsy fold-up guide to the homes of actors and actresses represents the ultimate divide between the “haves” and “have-nots.”

From Washington Times ● Feb. 25, 2015

To hear them as they mingle grave and gay— The prudent planning for the week, and then Amid the tritest gossip of the day, Quaint, petty talk of merchandise and men.

From Challenge by Untermeyer, Louis