cliché
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Against the risks of didacticism — or, God forbid, “preachiness” — I’ll take the productive tension of the occasional cliché or bald statement of purpose.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
The silence, for once, may merit the cliché “deafening.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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
That might be a cliché, but this time it’s literally true.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
I hate the cliché that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, because covers say so much about what’s inside.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
Locals’ favorite summertime cliche has been brutally terminated by the worst humidity we’ve ever seen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Bernstine finds new notes in a role that typically runs to cliche.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
“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
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
The cliche of time passing slowly usually has to do with idleness and inactivity.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Yes, it’s trite, but most clichés have an element of truth.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Like awful writers, large language models are programmed to reach for clichés.
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
“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
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 cliché
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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