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archetype

[ahr-ki-tahyp] / ˈɑr kɪˌtaɪp /


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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

But it also plays into an archetype we love to hate — the femme fatale.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 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

And now I wish I hadn't said anything about this archetype dude because I hate looking up stuff in his stupid dictionary.

From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick

The sessions went so well that Morali asked Willis to front the group, which adopted campy archetypes of masculinity — cop, cowboy and construction worker among them — in their stage costumes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

The personnel we follow in “The Pitt” are archetypes, while J.D.,

From Salon ● Feb. 26, 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

They were the archetypes after which all things have been made, and they are archetypes which are at once abstract and concrete.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce


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