overused term
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“It’s an overused term - that he was a dedicated public servant - but that really was Roy,” Tanner said.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 10, 2023
“It’s an overused term — that he was a dedicated public servant — but that really was Roy,” Tanner said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 9, 2023
“To use an overused term, all of this would have been completely unprecedented. I can’t imagine anything like that ever having happened before,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2022
His emotionally prismatic, novelistic first feature, 2011’s “In the Family,” laid bare a fraught custody battle with uncommon grace, and his latest, “A Bread Factory,” just in cinemas, earned that overused term “intimate epic.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2018
“Deconstructionist” is an overused term in criticism, but it fits in this case.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2016
