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archetype

[ahr-ki-tahyp] / ˈɑr kɪˌtaɪp /


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Juice will monitor Jupiter's complex magnetic, radiation and plasma environment in depth and its interplay with the moons, studying the Jupiter system as an archetype for gas giant systems across the Universe.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

With unruly hair, round glasses, an affable demeanor and a taste for V-neck sweaters, Amodei is worlds away from the corporate executive archetype -- and seems to be motivated by something his peers are not.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Moreover, they are much newer than the archetype collector car, like a vintage Porsche, and much cheaper to boot—and several insurance providers are finding them to be a growing revenue source.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

“It was about creating the most elevated version of what their character’s archetype might be,” Marsh said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

In literature and in the popular imagination, the all-seeing private eye—the gumshoe, the cinder dick, the sleuthhound, the shadow—displaced the crusading sheriff as the archetype of rough justice.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

That was a way of getting a bit of Christie in because she does so well showing you what’s beneath the facade of all these archetypes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

“A lot of them were exploring otherness and self-discovery through the archetypes of the genre because it was a way to express it at a time when those ideas were taboo,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

The personnel we follow in “The Pitt” are archetypes, while J.D.,

From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2026

"Despite both athletes sharing similar racial backgrounds and first-generation immigrant experiences," Prof He says, "they have been cast as opposing archetypes in a narrative they didn't write".

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026

He shewed the distinctiveness of each plan of structure, and then discussed the relations of the ideas suggested by Von Baer to these archetypes.

From Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work by P. Chalmers (Peter Chalmers) Mitchell


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