archetypical

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Boritt, a Hungarian refugee who became an influential historian of two archetypical American subjects—Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War—died on Feb. 2 in Chambersburg, Pa. He was 86.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

When I spy Lis Smith—veteran of presidential campaigns run by Pete Buttigieg, Martin O’Malley, and Obama, former girlfriend of Eliot Spitzer, and archetypical D.C. swamp resident—I can’t help but ask for a selfie.

From Slate • Nov. 19, 2025

With his Buzz Lightyear-like square jaw and clean cut appearance, he comes across as the archetypical heroic astronaut.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2025

Despite these directional trends, however, ceratioids also displayed remarkable variability in body shapes from the archetypical globose anglerfish to elongated forms like the "wolftrap" phenotype, which features a jaw structure resembling a trap.

From Science Daily • Dec. 2, 2024

Neanderthals are often depicted in caricatures as the archetypical brutish and stupid ‘cave people’, but recent evidence has changed their image.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari