pigeonhole

Example Sentences

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And in the days since it premiered, a community used to being pigeonholed as geeks and wizards watched it — then finally exhaled, smiled and released decades of anxiety.

From Washington Post

The pigeonhole situation is about my next project not being those things.

From Salon

According to the pigeonhole principle, two of them must necessarily be on the same hemisphere.

From Scientific American

But you can’t pigeonhole serial killers into a particular race or age.

From Fox News

“I didn’t like how they just categorized us and pigeonholed us,” she said.

From New York Times