as in cliche
an idea or expression that has been used by many people
ended his letter with the overused truism, "You can't win them all!"
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Recent Examples of truism
Ever the booster, Ryan even challenged the truism that San Francisco is the better city for AI.
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Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2024
But the manager was merely highlighting one of football’s truisms: the under-21s scene is a world away from the Premier League, and facing the likes of Son Heung-min in front of 60,000 Tottenham fans.
—Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
Jelani Cobb an hour ago Kamala Harris’s Fourth Quarter
Photograph by Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
An old sports truism holds that defense wins championships.
—The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024
Illustration: Sam Whitney; Getty Images Cybersecurity truisms have long been described in simple terms of trust: Beware email attachments from unfamiliar sources, and don't hand over credentials to a fraudulent website.
—Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 31 May 2021
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Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2024
But the manager was merely highlighting one of football’s truisms: the under-21s scene is a world away from the Premier League, and facing the likes of Son Heung-min in front of 60,000 Tottenham fans.
—Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
Jelani Cobb an hour ago Kamala Harris’s Fourth Quarter
Photograph by Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
An old sports truism holds that defense wins championships.
—The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024
Illustration: Sam Whitney; Getty Images Cybersecurity truisms have long been described in simple terms of trust: Beware email attachments from unfamiliar sources, and don't hand over credentials to a fraudulent website.
—Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 31 May 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for truism
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According to Nate, what makes working with Marielle satisfying isn’t just her determination to avoid the cliche, but her willingness to look for the best idea up until the last possible minute.Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 3 Dec. 2024
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Of the many threadbare cliches passed down among wine lovers, the idea that white wines do not merit aging is among the most egregious.Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 25 Nov. 2024
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Third, your motivation is assumed as seeking ego-boosting platitudes and simply is intended to stoke your self-image.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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Her tenure in the U.S. Senate was marked by support for standard-issue progressive platitudes.Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register, 15 Nov. 2024
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Tour ’74 was Dylan’s first-ever arena tour—a rock commonplace by 1974 that had not even been imaginable in 1966.Michaelangelo Matos, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2024
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Neumann was a lifelong social democrat whose writings evince neither sympathy for Soviet communism nor any whiff of the fellow-traveling commonplace among radicals during the 1930s and 1940s.William E. Scheuerman, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2013
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To paraphrase an old proverb, the best time to connect the fights for trans and reproductive rights was decades ago.Colleen Hamilton, Them, 4 Dec. 2024
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This brings up the proverb of wanting to have your cake and eat it too.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Truism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/truism. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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