as in cliche
an idea or expression that has been used by many people
another sitcom based on the banality of roommates with opposite personalities
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Recent Examples of banality
There are quick but indelible glimpses of signs for the whites-only ticket booth, waiting room, and rest room; when Stack, seeing a white woman nearby, orders Sammie to avert his eyes and walk away, the screen shivers with the ambient terror underlying the banalities of segregation.
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2025
And as his fellow nominees have trudged through the Q&As, Chalamet has largely eschewed the traditional banalities of awards season.
—Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
Yesterday’s pangrams were attainability, banality and inability.
—Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
The scene that follows—an intense grief followed by a quick return to the dull and depraved routine of trying to score their next hit—captures both the extremism and the banality of addiction and homelessness.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2025
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2025
And as his fellow nominees have trudged through the Q&As, Chalamet has largely eschewed the traditional banalities of awards season.
—Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
Yesterday’s pangrams were attainability, banality and inability.
—Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
The scene that follows—an intense grief followed by a quick return to the dull and depraved routine of trying to score their next hit—captures both the extremism and the banality of addiction and homelessness.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for banality
Noun
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So at least in her case, the Wild West cliches hold pretty true.—
Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
30 May 2025
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Nonetheless, there is a satisfying, compact completeness to their handling of the storylines of four different young mothers and sufficient grace notes are enabled in each case to stave off the cliches that occasionally threaten to engulf events.—
Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
23 May 2025
Noun
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The state uses a three-drug protocol of etomidate, rocuronium bromide and potassium acetate.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
2 May 2025
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But behind such vague bromides are specific national qualities that social scientists can identify and measure.—
Michael J. Mazarr,
Foreign Affairs,
21 June 2022
Noun
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Luxury scented candles, like room sprays for that matter, have the power to elevate any moment: taking it from commonplace to utterly indulgent.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
26 Mar. 2025
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The Grand Ole Opry House holds 4,400 people, but can’t accommodate standing-room tours, a commonplace in genres like EDM and hip-hop.—
Matthew Leimkuehler,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Writing at length is to me always an act of learning and changing, in which authors can strive towards something more dimensional than a platitude on a placard.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 June 2025
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Craig starts off leading a stable (enough) existence, working a corporate job, exchanging platitudes with his teenage son Steven (Jack Dylan Grazer), ignoring hints of discontent from Tami, and taking pride in his big accomplishment of getting speed bumps installed on their street.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
9 May 2025
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Bear in mind the truism that stock markets can always go down as well as up.—
Dr. Ronald Premuroso,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2025
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According to Joyce, however, this truism depicts both Bloomsbury and the Victorians as monoliths and prevents a nuanced understanding of the complex ways Bloomsbury engaged with its Victorian past.—
Jenny Noyce,
JSTOR Daily,
14 May 2025
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“Banality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/banality. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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