pigeonhole
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“If we embrace narrow group-based identities too fiercely, we cling to the very cages in which others would seek to trap us. We pigeonhole ourselves.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026
"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
“If within being pigeonholed I can create a rich acting experience — which is why I became an actor — pigeonhole me, go ahead,” Bell says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024
I’ve noticed that messages from readers increasingly tend to pigeonhole, label or categorize.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024
When the knock came on her door she put the envelopes in a pigeonhole of her desk.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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
His fundamental theme is how social media pigeonholes us and mines our data, a condescending phenomenon that treats us less like human beings than abstractions made up of marketable information.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
“It pigeonholes you. I remember having a conversation with my dad in ’74.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2019
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
She put all of her papers neatly in the pigeonholes of her desk, and when Joe brought the tea tray she had him put it beside her bed.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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
As a college student, you have more imagination and idealism than a burned-out professional who feels pigeonholed into a particular industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
“You can get pigeonholed really quickly,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 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
Many of the offers centered on capitalizing on their family names and pigeonholing them into commercial pop or hip-hop, which they tried and ultimately disliked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 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
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