stereotype
Example Sentences
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At 10 he pondered Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s definition of the Russians as a “God-bearing nation” and concluded that “all national stereotypes were nonsense.”
“People tend to stereotype all things Jewish and what they don’t know about certain holidays with what they think they do,” Summers says.
From Los Angeles Times
When no one is around, the doleful ex-judge listens to Italian gangsta rap, and sometimes even raps along with it, suggesting he isn’t quite the stereotype others assume him to be.
These weren’t merely negative perceptions or ugly stereotypes, and fortunately these groups were willing to face reality.
They are helping destroy the stereotype that City Section football is lacking in talent.
From Los Angeles Times
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