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archetype

[ahr-ki-tahyp] / ˈɑr kɪˌtaɪp /


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But it also plays into an archetype we love to hate — the femme fatale.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

When it was time for my solo outing, I chose an archetype much closer to my heart: the cozy crime solver.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026

And now I wish I hadn't said anything about this archetype dude because I hate looking up stuff in his stupid dictionary.

From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick

If the box office is a fair, measurable indicator of how the public feels about these superhero archetypes, guess what?

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

The sessions went so well that Morali asked Willis to front the group, which adopted campy archetypes of masculinity — cop, cowboy and construction worker among them — in their stage costumes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 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

The script, written by Bertie Brandes and Aidan Zamiri, who also directs, draws heavily on archetypes in a plot that sticks closely to the familiar artist-against-the-machine formula.

From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026

Often great liberties in the way of revision and even abridgment of the text were taken by the scholars of the time, and, once transcribed, the old archetypes were neglected or even destroyed.

From The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts Helps for Students of History, No. 17. by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James


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