variants
also cliches
as in tropes
an idea or expression that has been used by many people
try to write a love story without resorting to well-worn clichés
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Blending thriller, drama and romance tropes coated in an overall ironic tone, the film marks the directorial debut of Rampoldi, who is a prominent Italian screenwriter.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
13 Oct. 2025 -
Most women fall somewhere in between those two tropes, and for years feminists like Strauss have been working to do away with that false binary.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
10 Oct. 2025
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Kirk also issued sweeping, negative generalizations about members of some minority groups, including Black people, which many critics viewed as racist.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
14 Oct. 2025
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While most viewers praised the message, others challenged its generalizations.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
Noun
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My first true attempts at poetry were self-guided, painfully rhymed, drenched in abstractions and exhausted platitudes.—
Via Scribner,
Literary Hub,
6 Oct. 2025
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His answers, typically, differ by just a few words and a few platitudes.—
Noah White,
Miami Herald,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Written by Noah Oppenheim, Bigelow’s real-time thriller about the banalities and actualities of a fictional-in-premise-only nuclear attack on the United States is Netflix’s best horse in the race at the Oscars this year.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
19 Sep. 2025
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The idea of sheep plays into wanting to break stereotypes, challenge stereotypes.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Oct. 2025
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My depression doesn’t look like the stereotypes of a woman with a resting sad face.—
Ashley Womble,
SELF,
10 Oct. 2025
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There is an outright rejection of bromides that would give us some conclusion of reassurance.—
Richard Newby,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
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Incidents of such poisoning saw a sharp decline when the Food and Drug Administration phased out the use of bromides in pharmaceuticals between the mid 70s and late 1980s.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
13 Aug. 2025
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The only way to end Argentina’s currency nightmare and pull Milei’s chestnuts out of the fire is to replace the peso with the dollar.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
13 Oct. 2025
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As Middleton shared with the first lady, Prince Louis, who is seven, is now obsessed with chestnuts.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Clichés.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clich%C3%A9s. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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