archetype
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It hoped to highlight the strength of women and fight against the archetype that women needed rescuing, Smith -- who played Kelly Garrett -- told AFP on the red carpet at Hollywood's legendary Dolby Theatre.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
But for the admissions essay, the dry and uninspired robot voice turns one teenager after the next into only the archetype of a teenager, writing like a grown-up.
From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026
On a surface level, I think Brontë created an archetype that has lived on — the brooding, possessive self-made man type.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
To me, the 327/28 also set the archetype for BMW’s “M” cars—the high-performance line of road cars that BMW also sells all over the world today.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025
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
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