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
“This is gonna sound like a cliche, but if you build it, they will come,” Bitar said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
“I know that’s a cliche way to say things, but … he was going to do what Victor was going to do.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
I'm 50, and this is not a rehearsal, as cliche as that sounds.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026
And if you must use a cliche, why not word it in a way that makes physical sense?
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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
"It might sound cliché but we had to learn a new way of communicating," she says.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
And while it details Jewish participation in, and influence on, global soccer, it also challenges the cliché that Jews were intellectuals, artists and laborers but not athletes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 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
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
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
By avoiding clichés and featuring a mostly Black cast, Rae’s mission for Hoorae’s new venture is simple: defy expectations and tell a great story.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 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
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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