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
In the 1800s bromides came about, an alternative to alcohol and opium used for centuries.
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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
In many parts of the world, especially in Africa, the United States has already lost to China, which helps local economies without delivering moralizing bromides about governance and values.
—Zhou Bo, Foreign Affairs, 13 May 2024
What came through here more than usual was the optimism of a comic whose worldview mixes dark conspiratorial musings with the upbeat bromides of a pep talk.
—Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 7 May 2024
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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
In many parts of the world, especially in Africa, the United States has already lost to China, which helps local economies without delivering moralizing bromides about governance and values.
—Zhou Bo, Foreign Affairs, 13 May 2024
What came through here more than usual was the optimism of a comic whose worldview mixes dark conspiratorial musings with the upbeat bromides of a pep talk.
—Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 7 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bromide
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The production’s simplicity ditched the cliches that have accumulated around the play over decades.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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The trick to cultivating a distinct identity on LinkedIn is to focus on sharing your unique insights, shaped by your experiences, and ignore the cliches.John Marino, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Jakins, who had never won the men’s competition previously, broke multiple opponents’ chestnuts with just one hit and was later found with a steel replica conker in his pocket.Jamie Barton, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
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The small mountains in the center of Portugal are covered in verdant holm and cork oaks, shaded by chestnuts and pines and crisscrossed with hiking trails.Ann Abel, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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Today, vague, upbeat platitudes about future growth, delivered broadcast-style and business-wide, might turn off your best and brightest.Expert Panel®, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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Over the past few years, we’ve been inundated with warnings, predictions, and future-gazing platitudes about the transformative nature of Artificial Intelligence (AI).Tim Clark, Forbes, 28 Oct. 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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This is about the banality of everyday life, about people merely following trends without thought.Reece Rogers, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2024
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Jelani Cobb an hour ago Kamala Harris’s Fourth Quarter Photograph by Kevin Lamarque / Reuters An old sports truism holds that defense wins championships.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024
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Illustration: Sam Whitney; Getty Images Cybersecurity truisms have long been described in simple terms of trust: Beware email attachments from unfamiliar sources, and don't hand over credentials to a fraudulent website.Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 31 May 2021
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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 21 Nov. 2024.
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