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The comedian was booed offstage after telling another clichéd knock-knock joke.
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Set in a terminal at Newark Airport during the holiday rush, the sketch plays as a Christmas pageant of all the most cliched airport behavior, from taking your weed edible too early and in too high a dose to the couple disagreeing over joining the mile high club.
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Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 22 Dec. 2024
In the new Hulu show Interior Chinatown, a background actor trapped playing different cliched Asian characters on a police procedural gets involved in Chinatown’s crime scene.
—Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Dec. 2024
There are subtle hints of green — namely in the shamrock brooch — but Weber wanted to move away from the need for cliched green to represent her homeland.
—Caoimhe O'Neill, The Athletic, 24 July 2024
How to Die Alone definitely finds its groove mid-season as the show moves forward in a way that’s comfortably predictable yet never cliched.
—Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
Unfortunately, this practice makes all digital content look the same: robotic, devoid of emotion, cliched, meaningless, and lacking personality or natural flavor.
—Rachel Wells, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
There’s an easy, cliched way to sound design drunkenness.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2024
Lyrics make nods to cliched sentiments that could have been sung by both Jone Jett and Aaron Carter.
—Margaret Farrell, SPIN, 12 Sep. 2024
The bottom line: Some lines are old and a bit cliched, but still be true.
—Neil Irwin, Axios, 6 Aug. 2024
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Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 22 Dec. 2024
In the new Hulu show Interior Chinatown, a background actor trapped playing different cliched Asian characters on a police procedural gets involved in Chinatown’s crime scene.
—Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Dec. 2024
There are subtle hints of green — namely in the shamrock brooch — but Weber wanted to move away from the need for cliched green to represent her homeland.
—Caoimhe O'Neill, The Athletic, 24 July 2024
How to Die Alone definitely finds its groove mid-season as the show moves forward in a way that’s comfortably predictable yet never cliched.
—Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
Unfortunately, this practice makes all digital content look the same: robotic, devoid of emotion, cliched, meaningless, and lacking personality or natural flavor.
—Rachel Wells, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
There’s an easy, cliched way to sound design drunkenness.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2024
Lyrics make nods to cliched sentiments that could have been sung by both Jone Jett and Aaron Carter.
—Margaret Farrell, SPIN, 12 Sep. 2024
The bottom line: Some lines are old and a bit cliched, but still be true.
—Neil Irwin, Axios, 6 Aug. 2024
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“Clichéd.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clich%C3%A9d. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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