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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

“It sounds cliche, but the walls between our communities literally burned to the ground,” Bernstein said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 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

That she used a cliche was a good sign.

From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence

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

And while it details Jewish participation in, and influence on, global soccer, it also challenges the cliché that Jews were intellectuals, artists and laborers but not athletes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 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

And because I’ve turned into an actual cliché, I jump straight into the whole routine.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

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

By avoiding clichés and featuring a mostly Black cast, Rae’s mission for Hoorae’s new venture is simple: defy expectations and tell a great story.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 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

I think it all started with those darn clichés, thinking I had to work so arduously at everything.

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 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