cliche
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So, just more peace and love, literally sounds probably very cliche, but peace and love.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 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
Just because it's a cliche doesn't mean it isn't true.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2026
In the 2020 miniseries “Hollywood,” Ryan Murphy’s alternate history of the 1930s picture business, the studio head he plays is not the desk-banger of cliche, but he is a man with an appetite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
You dismiss it as a cliche, but the problem is it’s true.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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But Morocco came through, and as the cliché goes, the mark of a great team is that they know how to win ugly.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
That might be a cliché, but this time it’s literally true.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 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
The confluence of Day’s songs, Herrmann’s score and Benjamin’s cantata demolished the cliché of cinema music needing to stay in the background.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 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
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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
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
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
Recognizing that the film-noir genre, to which “Point Blank” loosely belongs, had become reliant on melodramatic clichés, Mr. Boorman practiced the fine art of removal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 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
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Middle School
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