cliche

It’s so common it’s become something of a cliche.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

"It is what it is. Same old cliche a decade later. Keep running you little cowards," he added.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 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

The use of an old-fashioned word for an old- fashioned garment helps date the snapshot for us, without the cliche faded photograph.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

At the movies, the PTSD-suffering veteran is a familiar figure, bordering on cliché.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

This month, born of a well-known art-world cliché that has long captured our imagination, Kelly tackles no less than the corps of unidentified women in the canon of Western art.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

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

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

My life there was entirely new, and as near to a cliché as I could make it.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Occasionally, “Your Mother” indulges in genre clichés, such as gratuitous slow-motion and solemn pronouncements about the warrior’s code.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Yes, it’s trite, but most clichés have an element of truth.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

But replacing clichés with something vivid and original is a harder task.

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 unless she is imagined to be more than tired tropes and predictable clichés.

From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan