archetype

Scrooge the literary character survives and revives as not only a man of Dickens’ time and place but as an archetype of our long and sketchy human history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

But the prevalence of this archetype almost elides the basic fact that spurning therapy is a symptom of a deeper avoidance: the denial of a need for treatment of any kind.

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026

The scary mommy has been an archetype in storytelling for as long as stories have existed.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

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 new warehouse chief looked like the Englishman archetype Obinze carried in his mind, tall and spare, sandy-haired and blue-eyed.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“And it’s just interesting to me that those archetypes are so rarely women and candidates of color.”

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 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

It was really important to us not to think in those archetypes, and we never referred to them in casting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025

The second Person of the Trinity contains in Himself the archetypes of everything.

From Christian Mysticism by William Ralph Inge