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cliche

[klee-shey, kli-] / kliˈʃeɪ, klɪ- /


cliché


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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

“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

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

And she didn’t even care if that was a cliche.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

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

Like the cliché, there’s two sides to a story, ya know?

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 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

My life there was entirely new, and as near to a cliché as I could make it.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

It’s one of the great clichés of Mexican culture — how our parties always end in tears and worse.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 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

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 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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