archetype
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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
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
With unruly hair, round glasses, an affable demeanor and a taste for V-neck sweaters, Amodei is worlds away from the corporate executive archetype -- and seems to be motivated by something his peers are not.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
It was as if instead of entering a house she was entering the idea of a house, some archetype brought to life here before her.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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“And it’s just interesting to me that those archetypes are so rarely women and candidates of color.”
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
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
In his telling, two distinct social archetypes rooted in the era of England’s 17th-century civil war—the Cavalier and the Puritan—were symbolized by the ships of his title, the White Lion and the Mayflower.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 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
Titian's courtesans are our archetypes of dignified womanhood; we might fancy Portia or Isabella with such calm, florid beauty, so wholly unmeretricious and uncankered.
From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. I by Vernon Lee
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