cliché
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This culinary artist is one of that clan of uncompromising foodie obsessives who are beginning to become a cliché in popular culture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
To do that takes humans able to express themselves without reaching for the nearest cliché.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
"It might sound cliché but we had to learn a new way of communicating," she says.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 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
“And it’s not about stereotypical girl topics written in sappy, cliché ways.”
From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
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Bernstine finds new notes in a role that typically runs to cliche.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
“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
I'm 50, and this is not a rehearsal, as cliche as that sounds.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026
And, though I know it is a cliche, I have to say it nevertheless: You ain’t seen nothin yet.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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Yes, it’s trite, but most clichés have an element of truth.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 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
“Rollins hates clichés and signature phrases — ‘licks’ — and refuses to play them,” critic Stanley Crouch wrote in the New Yorker in 2005.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
The only “feelings you were allowed to have for your homeland were clichés, kitschy and prefabricated.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 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
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Vocabulary lists containing cliché
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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