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archetype

noun as in typical example

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Now the 45-year-old Singh is plotting the ultimate socialist insurrection in a land that in many ways is a capitalist archetype, with low taxes and a business environment that companies rate as among the friendliest in the world.

From Ozy

I’m not the kind of viewer who tries to guess what’s around each narrative corner, but this show’s fidelity to familiar archetypes and other genre tropes made it hard not to do so—and I was almost always right.

From Time

Multiple players who fit that archetype will also make it easier for the Warriors to trot out their small-ball units with Green at center — lineups they had a tough time getting to last year, especially while James Wiseman was healthy.

Reminiscent of the curved dabs in Cafritz’s abstractions, the beads link photography to painting, and organic archetypes to invented ones.

More than a new spin on an old set of archetypes, it’s the most deliciously dark entry in a wave of series and films that capture the unvarnished drudgery of assistants, agents and other decidedly unglamorous entertainment-industry cogs.

From Time

Your main character breaks free from the archetype of the African-American novel: David is not black.

The calavera, or decorated skull, is an archetype of Mexican popular culture.

Roll Royce—you would expect nothing less from such a British archetype, right?

By Ann Friedman, Medium The first step is, throw out the hoodie-wearing boy-genius and build a new archetype.

I believe an archetype was born in those years, that of the doughty British woman—proud, opinionated, but with a heart of gold.

Similarly, the One is the higher archetype of the intellectual power which moves around Him, being His image.

And nevertheless, by their unity all these things imitate the same archetype, some from far, some from near.

Archetype, rk′e-tīp, n. the original pattern or model, a prototype.

Greek culture must be distinguished as the archetype; and it must be shown how all culture rests upon shaky conceptions.

Remember that whatever paternal wisdom or maternal tenderness we have ever known here, has its source and archetype on high.

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On this page you'll find 49 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to archetype, such as: form, ideal, model, original, paradigm, and pattern.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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