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Word: clicheed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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This was one of the many gatherings held around the world last week to commemorate the anniversary of the genocide. Since then, we've seen war crimes tribunals emerge, world leaders (almost) apologize for their inaction, refugee surges that have turned the phrase "mass exodus" into a shopworn cliche, and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Why We Need a War Crimes Ambassador | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

The movement that King led swept all that away. Its victory was so complete that even though those outrages took place within the living memory of the baby boomers, they seem like ancient history. And though this revolution was the product of two centuries of agitation by thousands upon thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Martin Luther King | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

Not so good, though, are the high expectations being promoted. If beating Wall Street really were that easy, the ladies would never have fallen. (Can they get up?) That's not to say individuals can't beat the market. You really do have the advantages of time and unique insight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jail the Beardstown Ladies! | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

A child prodigy, Ma never toed the expected line, cutting class regularly, pounding brews at music camp and leaving his cello in the rain, passing up the conservatory for a liberal-arts education at Columbia and then dropping out without telling his parents (he later graduated from Harvard). Now 42...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Yo-Yo Ma's Suite Life? | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

Whether "they" are right or not, the cliche says nothing of what weapons to use.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How to Slay A Giant 101 | 3/12/1998 | See Source »

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