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Six example sentences with hackneyed, each labelled with its topic.
Every second manuscript opens with a storm and a funeral, and editors now find that hackneyed pairing impossible to finish.
Literature
The sequel leans on a hackneyed montage of training scenes that audiences have watched in a hundred earlier films.
Movies
Producers avoid that hackneyed four chord progression because listeners recognize it within two bars and reach for the skip button.
Music
The pitch leaned on hackneyed lines about synergy and disruption, and the room had heard every one of them before.
Business
Sunset over a pier is so hackneyed that the judges disqualified any entry that included one.
Photography
Critics dismissed the show as hackneyed, another set of neon slogans in a gallery that has hung them for a decade.
Art
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