archetype
Example Sentences
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To evaluate a dog’s alterations, said Packer, consider how much it deviates from the original archetype: the wolf.
“It’s no longer about piloting and learning about what adaptation is and what it means and what the archetypes are,” Gbadegesin said.
Possessed of few obvious talents and a bottomless sense of entitlement, this expensively upholstered figure was the archetype for the ordinary middle-class matron who blossomed into improbable, overwhelming, gasp-inducing fame.
From New York Times
By design, it would seem, Millepied’s protagonists are more archetypes than fleshed out portraits of people.
From Los Angeles Times
In an interview with The New York Times just before “Barton Fink” was released, he said he approached the role as an archetype rather than a stereotype.
From New York Times
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