as in cliche
an idea or expression that has been used by many people
a newspaper editorial offering the timeworn bromide that people should settle their differences peacefully
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Recent Examples of bromide
The film’s most perceptive campaign jokes pilfer from Warren Beatty’s Bulworth but without Beatty’s satire of DNC bromides.
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Armond White, National Review, 23 Oct. 2024
According to the old bromide, the grass is greener on the other side of the fence.
—Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
In the 1800s bromides came about, an alternative to alcohol and opium used for centuries.
—Martha McPhee, Vogue, 24 July 2024
That point is shrill and shallow because De Sica, the artist who had previously directed the divorce drama The Children Are Watching Us, has already gone far past political bromides.
—Armond White, National Review, 19 June 2024
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Armond White, National Review, 23 Oct. 2024
According to the old bromide, the grass is greener on the other side of the fence.
—Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
In the 1800s bromides came about, an alternative to alcohol and opium used for centuries.
—Martha McPhee, Vogue, 24 July 2024
That point is shrill and shallow because De Sica, the artist who had previously directed the divorce drama The Children Are Watching Us, has already gone far past political bromides.
—Armond White, National Review, 19 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bromide
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According to Nate, what makes working with Marielle satisfying isn’t just her determination to avoid the cliche, but her willingness to look for the best idea up until the last possible minute.Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 3 Dec. 2024
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Of the many threadbare cliches passed down among wine lovers, the idea that white wines do not merit aging is among the most egregious.Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 25 Nov. 2024
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Soaking the chestnuts helps them to get a little softer before roasting.Caroline C. Boyle, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
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Think pine cones, chestnuts, mushroom decorations, feathers, and a variety of forest creatures.Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Dec. 2024
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Nathanson plumps the story with platitudes and moments that could lead to, well, more franchising.Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
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So Nandor sits down with Guillermo and attempts to sympathize with him, while Colin offers empty platitudes better suited to a coffee mug.Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 16 Dec. 2024
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Generally, the drama does spectacularly well with abiding by a primal sense of magical realism — the finding of wonderment in the banal and the insertion of banality into the wondrous.Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2024
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None capture the awkward banality of the candidate’s actual campaign stop.Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2024
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These challenges underpin the truism that while AI can transform finance, the potential will be realized only with more than just technological investment.Erum Manzoor, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
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The motivation behind the truisms is to create a workplace that employees want to go to — without a back-to-office mandate.Anna Butler, Boston Herald, 18 Aug. 2024
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Tour ’74 was Dylan’s first-ever arena tour—a rock commonplace by 1974 that had not even been imaginable in 1966.Michaelangelo Matos, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2024
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Neumann was a lifelong social democrat whose writings evince neither sympathy for Soviet communism nor any whiff of the fellow-traveling commonplace among radicals during the 1930s and 1940s.William E. Scheuerman, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2013
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“Bromide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bromide. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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