trite
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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
Quoting what may be Russian literature’s most famous line is a little trite, I’ll admit.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026
My exposure to this all stems from being around salespeople who were not competent and didn’t have a clue in how to sell, so they fell back on trite sayings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
The only expression more trite than tongue in cheek is tongue firmly in cheek.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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
The tritest way is that we get to inhabit other lands, other customs, other personalities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2016
Maybe every writer is doomed to have their tritest sentence become their most-tweeted, but in Joan Didion’s case, it feels particularly unfair that “we tell ourselves stories in order to live” has become so ubiquitous.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2015
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
While his fingers strayed to the improvising of his yearning and despair the woman sat spellbound, and finally he swung into that tritest of time-worn airs, "Home, Sweet Home."
From Destiny by Buck, Charles Neville
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