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Carell: I think there are a lot of cliches that you can lean into about that relationship, and I think that Bill and Matt avoided those.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026

He added that he has often been offended by "people who have cliches about African music, who expect Africa to produce a certain type of sound" via instruments such as the kora or percussion.

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

Everyone gets a pass for watching seasonal cliches during the holiday season.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

There are a lot of hiring cliches that could raise red flags when it comes to age bias.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 10, 2025

In a discipline in which athletes bored newsmen to death with cliches and blandly politic statements, Pollard was a singularly fresh interview, articulate, irreverent, and self-deprecating.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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