cliche
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“This is gonna sound like a cliche, but if you build it, they will come,” Bitar said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 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
Yet sometimes, he is entirely like the cliche - the long-serving politician who is intensely reluctant to confront accusations of past mistakes.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
An even worse cliche, Generation X, is already degenerating. get nowhere fast.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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
Epstein may have seemed the sober face of Beatlemania, but the bare facts of his trajectory are a rock-star cliché.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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
If anything, our previous Eurovision entries played it too safe, pandering to a cliché of polished electro-pop.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
“I think everyone dreams of leaving home, but trust me, the cliché is true: I’ve been a lot of places and there really is no place like home.”
From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson
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
There’s an old joke that Shakespeare is full of clichés, and it’s funny because he invented them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 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
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
Not just with objective wonder at the rising of a truth, fragmentary or not, up through what often seemed to be an impenetrable mass of prejudices, clichés, and bromides.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
Vocabulary lists containing cliche
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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