The confession is usually triggered by a joke bombing: Kids are doing it. Everyone’s doing it in the Midwest. It’s called ...

Each year on Nov. 3, the tried, the mostly true and the oft-repeated get their due on National Cliché Day. We'll be celebrating with a little rundown of the most cliché qualities of each of the ...

It is cliché, not plagiarism, that is the problem with our stilted, room-temperature political discourse. It used to be that thinking people would say, with at least a shred of pride, that their ...

Rogue AI is a sci-fi cliché. But is it close to becoming a reality? Some 1,800 tech entrepreneurs, computer scientists and other experts have put their names to a petition calling for a ...

I ’ve always been fond of the ordinary, homespun cliché. But I chafe at its more rarefied cousins, the catchphrases of critical theory as they mellow into middle age: “the male gaze ...

In the ’80s, Dolly Parton lit a rocket under her cowgirl look, multiplying the sequins and turning the bimbo cliché into a weapon. CNN values your feedback 1.

The “Awesome Issues of Language” is a gift that keeps on giving (Letters, April 24). One of the worst offenders in my view is: “How do things taste so far?” Upon hearing it, I always ask ...