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cliché

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noun

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Recent Examples of cliché
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
  • 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
  • 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
  • When providing feedback to a manager, focus on specific observable behaviors and their impact instead of using generalizations or judgments.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
  • 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
Adjective
  • In the skincare world, the best retinol serums are put on a pedestal, touted for their ability to breathe new life into tired, aging skin.
    Denise Primbet, Glamour, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Research has also found long-term exposure can result in anemia, which can leave patients feeling weak and tired; a low white blood cell count, which debilitates the immune system; and a low platelet count, which leads to excessive bleeding and bruising.
    Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • No matter how appropriate the words are, the communication will feel less like a celebration and more like an inauthentic, low-effort platitude due to the lack of human effort.
    Andrew Brodsky, TIME, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Perhaps the fires that devastated Los Angeles in early January will take such platitudes out of circulation, at least for a little while.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The movie’s a little more hackneyed and obvious now, but its central idea is still an undeniably creepy one: possessed children with pitchforks.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • But there’s a truism embedded in its hyperbole: Most people on good terms with their mother would describe her as the world’s greatest, regardless of any flaws and errors along the way.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Sure, better a Jesse than the Pacific Lumber Company, but there’s still a sentimental solipsism in Redwood, an uneasy aspect of emotional tourism smothered in a broadside of throw-pillow truisms on connection, growth, and healing.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • While fentanyl is not widely abused in Mexico, methamphetamine addiction is commonplace.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Data breaches are now commonplace, with over 22 billion records exposed globally in 2021 alone.
    Chad Angle, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2025

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“Cliché.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clich%C3%A9. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.

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