cliche
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It’s so common it’s become something of a cliche.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 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
“It sounds cliche, but the walls between our communities literally burned to the ground,” Bernstein said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
He walked slowly and spoke slowly, and almost everything he said publicly was bland, or a cliche, or just plain stupid.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
It’s become a cliché that journalists ought to speak truth to power.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
"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
But the murky situation didn’t stop commenters from falling back on a cliché of cancellation: “I never liked his stuff anyway.”
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
Gary Fenton and Billy Koch have been sports fans long enough to know the cliché about Father Time being undefeated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
“I’m fine,” I said, making a cliché of myself the way not-fine people do.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Yes, it’s trite, but most clichés have an element of truth.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
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
Enter artificial intelligence, which can flag clichés by analyzing the frequency at which figures of speech occur in data sets.
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
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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