cliche
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"It is what it is. Same old cliche a decade later. Keep running you little cowards," he added.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
“I don’t know why it became a cliche to say it’s an honor to be nominated, but it’s a hundred percent the truth.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 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
At the risk of sounding like a cliche, it's simply the truth.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
McCandless was hardly unique; there’s quite a few of these guys hanging around the state, so much alike that they’re almost a collective cliche.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Calling him an old soul veers a little too close to cliché, but it’s clearly something that he’s heard all of his life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 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
To do that takes humans able to express themselves without reaching for the nearest cliché.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
That might be a cliché, but this time it’s literally true.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
It’s all a little cliché for my tastes—the words on the phone, the silly smile I can’t get rid of—but so is being seventeen and unkissed.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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
The only “feelings you were allowed to have for your homeland were clichés, kitschy and prefabricated.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Somehow, McCarthy’s assurance makes these clichés seem new again, donning them as naturally as O’Connell’s gawky bellboy wearing an old-fashioned red cap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 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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