stereotype
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"He kind of just fit a masculine action-star stereotype... I'm pretty much positive none of us could name a movie he'd been in."
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026
It’s not the stereotype on its own that is the problem, he says: “it’s the predicament that matters.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
And perhaps that’s the real lesson hidden beneath the pasta stereotype: Italian cuisine isn’t just about pleasure.
From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026
It was unfair to associate all fans with what happened that day, but it perhaps reinforced a long-held stereotype of what England supporters were like for some.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026
If maybe, just maybe, I’d been so determined not to be stereotyped that I’d begun to stereotype everyone around me.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
Vocabulary lists containing stereotype
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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A Raisin in the Sun
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