cliché

"It's cliché but kind of creating and nourishing new life and new growth is just really the circle of life."

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

It’s called New People, and its program is a set of cliché slogans such as “not revolution, but evolution.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026

"It might sound cliché but we had to learn a new way of communicating," she says.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

It’s such a cliché, and I’m falling right into it.

From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan

"It is what it is. Same old cliche a decade later. Keep running you little cowards," he added.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Bernstine finds new notes in a role that typically runs to cliche.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

And you’ll often be surprised, and your writing will be livelier, if you take a few seconds to look up the original wording of a cliche.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Yes, it’s trite, but most clichés have an element of truth.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

But replacing clichés with something vivid and original is a harder task.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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

Not unless she is imagined to be more than tired tropes and predictable clichés.

From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan