pigeonhole

But she also defied the industry tendency to pigeonhole performers based on the breakout success of characters like Claire Bennet.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

Though it may pain me to say, as a frequent critic of Levinson’s work, it’s clear that even he knew that it would be all too easy for executives to pigeonhole Demie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

To see how we’ve evolved from the era of pigeonhole desks to today’s Zoom calls, it’s worth taking a close look at 10 landmark inventions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025

"Aerospace has something for people with different backgrounds, different qualifications, there's so much variety. So don't pigeonhole yourself, there really is something for everyone here."

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2025

She had read the name Dr. Lister off a pigeonhole on the wall behind him, because if you pretend you know someone, they’re more likely to let you in.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

Somewhere along the way if you're a young actor coming up, you can bet there are pigeonholes for everyone.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2024

“It pigeonholes you. I remember having a conversation with my dad in ’74.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2019

It occludes the far subtler and more interesting insights that a genius can provoke, and too confidently pigeonholes an individual who knowingly rejected the stifling limitations of his country’s artificial racial binary for a dupe.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2018

And nothing pigeonholes an artist faster than becoming a one-hit wonder — a fact of which he’s painfully aware.

From The Verge ● Nov. 12, 2015

Based on these mini-experiments, modern grammarians have sorted words into grammatical categories that sometimes differ from the traditional pigeonholes.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Steinem said that she was pigeonholed because of the story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

But one gets the sense that Thatcher’s worried about being pigeonholed.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

If he was implying that the money was specifically pigeonholed for an accelerated retirement of government securities, that’s untrue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

British coach Fran Jones - a namesake of the British number four - found herself "pigeonholed" coaching under-14s without being aware of opportunities that existed beyond that level.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

Second, developmental sequences are not invariant, so examples pigeonholed under the same stage are inevitably heterogeneous.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Points, too, for the solid casting, from the leads’ tricky pivoting from openness to caginess, to the criminally underseen Wasikowska, who navigates maternal complexities of worry and compassion that confound easy pigeonholing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

Raphael Benza, head of Johannesburg-based record label Vth Season, says the very name Best African Performance goes against pigeonholing.

From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2025

And I don't know, I guess just not pigeonholing people.

From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2024

Aside from the expressive art, “the story is not so much a story as an affirmation, about identity and being open to change and not pigeonholing yourself.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2023

It offers no nifty formulas for pigeonholing people or decoding folkways and manners.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times