as in cliché
an idea or expression that has been used by many people
a newspaper editorial offering the timeworn bromide that people should settle their differences peacefully
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Recent Examples of bromide
Other testing by the state’s environmental quality department found elevated levels of heavy metals commonly found in oil field wastewater including barium and bromide.
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Nick Bowlin,
ProPublica,
18 May 2026
While these songs might appear to be somewhat straightforward EBM that wear their politics on their latex sleeve, there’s a level of ambiguity at work that moves Kissing Luck Goodbye past its own bromides and into deeper artistic territory.
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Sadie Sartini Garner,
Pitchfork,
16 Apr. 2026
Disruption without construction Instructors burned out with the current situation endure a barrage of repetitive bromides.
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ArsTechnica,
13 Apr. 2026
The bromide has it that a liberal is a person who won’t take his own side in an argument.
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Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for bromide
Nick Bowlin,
ProPublica,
18 May 2026
While these songs might appear to be somewhat straightforward EBM that wear their politics on their latex sleeve, there’s a level of ambiguity at work that moves Kissing Luck Goodbye past its own bromides and into deeper artistic territory.
—
Sadie Sartini Garner,
Pitchfork,
16 Apr. 2026
Disruption without construction Instructors burned out with the current situation endure a barrage of repetitive bromides.
—
ArsTechnica,
13 Apr. 2026
The bromide has it that a liberal is a person who won’t take his own side in an argument.
—
Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for bromide
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bromide
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As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, some of America’s most visible business leaders are doing more than offering patriotic platitudes.
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There’s passable yet indistinguishable music in this exact style dropping every day, but the difference with Chicago’s Fatso is that his lyrics feel like scraps of conversations that communicate his hurt without leaning on platitudes.
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But together, the whole is blander than the sum of its parts—a subtle banality humans can often implicitly sense.
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Communion does him no favors, though, mostly in its sheer banality.
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This is certainly true—and a rather banal truism.
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Rick Jackson is testing that truism in his campaign for Georgia governor.
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Wolff was only the eighth woman to drive a Formula 1 car (four more have done it since); the role, a now-commonplace one that includes driving the simulator during Grand Prix weekends to inform trackside strategy, was created for her.
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The videos are often integrated into larger montages of drone strikes, underscoring how commonplace these drones have become for Russian forces.
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But a new shibboleth has seized the day.
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The director scores easy laughs off of modern-day progressive shibboleths such as gender-fluid pronouns, trigger warnings and Native American land acknowledgments.
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The ‘meet cute’ is becoming a trope in how people on social media talk about romance.
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The framing often positions Clark, a white player, as fragile and in need of shielding from predominantly Black opponents, reinforcing racist tropes about Black women being overly aggressive.
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“Bromide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bromide. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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