cliche
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“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
The cliche, 'anybody can beat anybody' in the Premier League is closer to the truth than in La Liga or the Bundesliga.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
Just because it's a cliche doesn't mean it isn't true.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2026
Bernardo: I would say that I know it's a bit of a cliche, but don't be afraid of failing.
From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2025
And she didn’t even care if that was a cliche.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
That might be a cliché, but this time it’s literally true.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
"It might sound cliché but we had to learn a new way of communicating," she says.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Like the cliché, there’s two sides to a story, ya know?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
The cliché of Ozu’s films being austere or even severe is debunked by his work involving children, and by remembrances of the now-aged children he directed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
“I’m fine,” I said, making a cliché of myself the way not-fine people do.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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
The only “feelings you were allowed to have for your homeland were clichés, kitschy and prefabricated.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 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
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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