stereotypes

NOUN

idea held as standard, example

Synonyms

STRONGEST

pattern

STRONG

average boilerplate convention custom fashion formula institution mold

WEAK

received idea

Antonyms

WEAK

difference

VERB

categorize as being example, standard

Synonyms

STRONGEST

pigeonhole

STRONG

catalogue conventionalize define dub institutionalize normalize regulate standardize systematize typecast

WEAK

methodize take to be

Antonyms

STRONG

confuse disorganize

WEAK

differentiate dissimilate

Example Sentences

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Franklin researchers had long speculated as to whether the second, complete, set of original daguerreotypes survived.

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2023

Writing in The New York Times Book Review, Peter C. Bunnell wrote that the pictures “are not nostalgic, but haunting, suggesting daguerreotypes of strangely familiar yet unknown relatives. ”

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2023

“You truly can talk to anyone with this pocket telegraph and make daguerreotypes of your breakfast?” they’ll say.

From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2022

In fact, the 1850 daguerreotypes of them are believed to be the first images ever made of enslaved people.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 5, 2021

There are no pictures of his sister Sally—no paintings or daguerreotypes as there would be of Isaac Granger one day.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis