archetype

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At least if they don’t understand the actual references they get the archetype.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

But for the admissions essay, the dry and uninspired robot voice turns one teenager after the next into only the archetype of a teenager, writing like a grown-up.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026

Our horses, our ranches, our rodeos—the entire romance of the cowboy archetype . . . these were born in Spain.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

“I Love LA” never lets Maia fully inhabit that archetype, nor does it have her reject hustle culture.

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2025

In literature and in the popular imagination, the all-seeing private eye—the gumshoe, the cinder dick, the sleuthhound, the shadow—displaced the crusading sheriff as the archetype of rough justice.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann