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archetype

[ahr-ki-tahyp] / ˈɑr kɪˌtaɪp /


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Juice will monitor Jupiter's complex magnetic, radiation and plasma environment in depth and its interplay with the moons, studying the Jupiter system as an archetype for gas giant systems across the Universe.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

The movie has invented its own intuitive archetype, so that now they all find themselves saying, “That’s so ‘wrong girls’” in certain situations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

When it was time for my solo outing, I chose an archetype much closer to my heart: the cozy crime solver.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026

Charles Murray used Fishtown as his archetype for the decline of the working class in his 2012 book, “Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

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

That was a way of getting a bit of Christie in because she does so well showing you what’s beneath the facade of all these archetypes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

“A lot of them were exploring otherness and self-discovery through the archetypes of the genre because it was a way to express it at a time when those ideas were taboo,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

"Despite both athletes sharing similar racial backgrounds and first-generation immigrant experiences," Prof He says, "they have been cast as opposing archetypes in a narrative they didn't write".

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026

The script, written by Bertie Brandes and Aidan Zamiri, who also directs, draws heavily on archetypes in a plot that sticks closely to the familiar artist-against-the-machine formula.

From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026

Longhi speaks of him as "most unfaithful to his archetypes," and, "whatever the originals, being always Bartolozzi."

From The Best Portraits in Engraving by Charles Sumner




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