pigeonhole
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He said: "What is wonderful is I feel like people can often pigeonhole queer cinema, and those two films show the spectrum and diversity that can be found."
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
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
But while the subjects of pleasure and open-mindedness captivate her, on screen Anderson is not letting the industry pigeonhole her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
In nonfiction, authors consider how we define wild places, how we pigeonhole the aging, and how languages live or die.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
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
Everything that’s wrong with this place is the way we put everyone in pigeonholes.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2020
Schumann created a nuanced new genre unfit for generic pigeonholes that includes aspects of opera, oratorio, chamber music and song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2018
His musical tastes were broad, and he was already resisting pigeonholes.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2017
Sitting at the desk, Booth removes a piece of paper and an envelope from the pigeonholes.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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
I’m not a young guy but I don’t want to get pigeonholed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
The American actor says she is "always" being pigeonholed into a certain role due to her age but she "resists at every turn".
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026
Jazz celebrity though he was, Duke Ellington disliked his music being pigeonholed as ‘jazz’; he preferred simply to call it ‘American music’, and he experimented in many forms and genres.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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
A whistleblower has told Panorama there was a "pattern" of "pigeonholing" small businesses as "distressed" when they were "salvageable".
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2025
He no longer felt like the “Baby” singer everyone was so hellbent on pigeonholing him as.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2024
I was intrigued then when the pollster YouGuv, in combination with The Economist magazine, decided to take pigeonholing to a whole different level.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024
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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