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also cliche
as in stereotyped
used or heard so often as to be dull
a cliché tale of lust and betrayal among the fabulously rich
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also cliche
as in generalization
an idea or expression that has been used by many people
try to write a love story without resorting to well-worn clichés
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Recent Examples of cliché
Dominique Fluker, Essence, 14 Feb. 2025
All those cliches about teamwork and belief and optimism?
—Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2025
The cliche goes that the NHL, like any professional sports league, is a business.
—Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
Such demands are rare for Altuve, a man who reserves most of his public comments for praising his teammates and cliches.
—Chandler Rome, The Athletic, 25 Jan. 2025
In a locker room, cliches about teamwork and selflessness often fly around like the practice jerseys that are wadded up and tossed into massive piles atop rolling carts.
—David Aldridge, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
Staying in 🎄 This year’s roster of Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas movies includes an NFL partnership and films that poke fun at the genre’s cliches.
—Hunter Clauss, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2024
For Butler and the Heat the relationship has devolved to the seeming point of cliche.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2025
On campus, Landow’s impact has gone beyond the bigger, stronger, faster cliches attached to most strength coaches.
—Pete Sampson, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
Noun
Ditch the cliches to accelerate intimacy in new creative ways, like incorporating sensory experiences.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 14 Feb. 2025
All those cliches about teamwork and belief and optimism?
—Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2025
The cliche goes that the NHL, like any professional sports league, is a business.
—Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
Such demands are rare for Altuve, a man who reserves most of his public comments for praising his teammates and cliches.
—Chandler Rome, The Athletic, 25 Jan. 2025
In a locker room, cliches about teamwork and selflessness often fly around like the practice jerseys that are wadded up and tossed into massive piles atop rolling carts.
—David Aldridge, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
Staying in 🎄 This year’s roster of Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas movies includes an NFL partnership and films that poke fun at the genre’s cliches.
—Hunter Clauss, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2024
For Butler and the Heat the relationship has devolved to the seeming point of cliche.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2025
On campus, Landow’s impact has gone beyond the bigger, stronger, faster cliches attached to most strength coaches.
—Pete Sampson, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cliché
Adjective
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Tragedies can be examined by those outside of its sphere of destruction, but the groundswell of feeling from Mexican viewers and critics is that there was little or no care taken to understand the cultural grief beyond stereotyped spectacle.—
Lucy Ford,
TIME,
24 Jan. 2025
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Founded by artists who grew up in Maryvale, Salcido said the purpose of Labor is to be the bridge that shows the artistic capacity and potential of Maryvale because the neighborhood is too often stereotyped, underrepresented and ignored.—
David Ulloa Jr,
The Arizona Republic,
6 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Furthermore, patients were all Asian and selected from a single health center, reducing any generalization of results to other populations.—
Tom Gavin,
EverydayHealth.com,
5 Feb. 2025
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On Sunday, Noem doubled down on false generalizations that Venezuelan TPS holders are in large part criminals from the notorious gang known as Tren de Aragua, or TDA.—
Syra Ortiz Blanes,
Miami Herald,
2 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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While their rap beef was a major moment for Hip-Hop and has elevated multiple personalities and podcasts, some people are tired of discussing it; Charlamagne seems to fall into that demographic.—
Armon Sadler,
VIBE.com,
11 Feb. 2025
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People get tired and begin complaining about the sketch.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Typically, the focus is on court operations and budget — the number of cases handled, number of cases resolved, and so on — with occasional platitudes about access to justice.—
Steve Zeidman,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2025
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Many of their remarks were vague and filled with typical management platitudes, but below are some of the snippets of conversation that caught my attention over two days of schmoozing with watch executives employed by one of the most powerful groups in the industry.—
Victoria Gomelsky,
Robb Report,
29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Which is a nauseatingly hackneyed and clichéd — not to mention stupefyingly reductive — type of statement to make about any kind of art or entertainment, of course.—
Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
3 Sep. 2019
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Good news is bad news for investors, as the hackneyed phrase goes.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
13 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The other truisms included creating a feeling that there was activity in the office and connecting workers by having sightlines of visibility throughout.—
Anna Butler,
Boston Herald,
18 Aug. 2024
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This has been a truism around the Bulls since the organization drafted him in 2020.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Thompson, Ha and Brownell also say that Season 4 will dive much more into the Regency era’s upstairs-downstairs class politics than previous seasons, due to Sophie being of a lower class than Benedict and the Bridgerton family, as well as the fairytale and forbidden love tropes.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025
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Du Maurier makes good use of many of the usual tropes of the Gothic genre, especially uncanny doubling: Relentlessly and unfavorably compared to the Manderley estate’s bewitching former mistress, the nameless narrator is pushed to the brink of sanity by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers.—
M.L. Rio,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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And the crew was flying an older-model aircraft that lacked certain safety technologies in its cockpit that are commonplace in those of commercial airplanes in the United States.—
Mark Walker,
New York Times,
5 Feb. 2025
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Because of this, what would normally be alarming at any other airport in the country has become commonplace at DCA.—
Megan Christie,
ABC News,
5 Feb. 2025
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“Cliché.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clich%C3%A9. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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