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cliche

How to use cliche in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for cliche.

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I am so tired of it, it has become a cliche.

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Quick take

a trite or obvious remark

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a trite or obvious remark

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cliche.

Example sentences

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I am so tired of it, it has become a cliche.

2

Roll eyes a little again, but who cares if it's startup-cliche.

3

The 'Some of my best friends are black...' cliche is only actually a problem if it is used to justify a racist statement.

4

Between Maps and the eviscerated app store one has to ask that cliche-ish question: What were they thinking?Wouldn't we like to know.

5

I know that's kind of cliche, but you don't really "get" that meaning until you walk into a coffee shop and see 2 or 3 people sitting around with tablets sticking up on the tables.

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As a black programmer, I remember the cliche about problems and regular expressions in my head as "regular expressions are like calling the cops.

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"The original cliche refers to a phenomenon where overripe or rotten apples release ethylene gas, which is a ripening agent.

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Do it because you want to change the world?It's a laughable, tired cliche now, especially coming from a guy who made the equivalent of a digital hipster moleskine who isn't changing a god damn thing about this world.

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Oh, you mean the sentence about how the eccentric scientist has been persecuted by the establishment for his contrarian work?To me, that sounds so much like the output of a journalist's nearest-cliche algorithm that it's impossible to say whether there's any truth in it, or how much.

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"My experience is that journalists report on the nearest-cliche algorithm, which is extremely uninformative because there arent many cliches, the truth is often quite distant from any cliche, and the only thing you can infer about the actual event was that this was the closest cliche.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use cliche in a sentence?

I am so tired of it, it has become a cliche.

What does cliche mean?

a trite or obvious remark

What part of speech is cliche?

cliche is commonly used as noun.