archetype
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Many of the AI country tunes tap into the genre's archetype of the lone cowboy: a rugged, taciturn, plain-spoken man who, above all, refuses to apologize for simply existing.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
With his gym clothes, cross necklace, floppy hair, and singular fixation on linking all of his efforts and successes to his faith, the 19-year-old Pittman looked like the archetype of the Southern Christian sports bro.
From Slate • Jan. 22, 2026
“I Love LA” never lets Maia fully inhabit that archetype, nor does it have her reject hustle culture.
From Salon • Dec. 15, 2025
To me, the 327/28 also set the archetype for BMW’s “M” cars—the high-performance line of road cars that BMW also sells all over the world today.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 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
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