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stereotype

[ster-ee-uh-tahyp, steer-] / ˈstɛr i əˌtaɪp, ˈstɪər- /




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Tall, lanky and unassuming, his apartment fits the stereotype of a hard-driving, even obsessive investigator.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Everyone knows the outdated and offensive characterization of a cat lady — a stereotype conjuring images of solitude, eccentricities and probably cartons of ice cream.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Hipsters war have now been usurped by a new stereotype: the tech bro.

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026

Through her media prominence and prolific output as an author, with a dozen books to her name, Steinem dispelled the stereotype of the humorless feminist simply by living.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026

Once more I had befriended a white man who didn’t fit the stereotype.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

The installation was meant to challenge Muslim stereotypes while making a subversive nod to the bread as a famous French symbol.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Think of certain stereotypes about Germany, and think again.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Elsewhere representations of women cleave to gender stereotypes focusing on their roles in home and their clothing.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

“I try to break down the stereotypes and have a little fun with them and let them become a kid again.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

The museum focuses on stereotypes, prejudice, genocide, the history of intolerance.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

What the reporting revealed was a continuing debate over whether Gen Z is everything from coddled to unfairly stereotyped and how it will fare at work in the future.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

"A lot of this comes down to shared problems that we have in the South Asian community of how South Asian boys and how South Asian girls might be stereotyped amongst football," she says.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026

Eating disorders are themselves understudied within the mental health field, where conditions like anorexia have incorrectly been stereotyped as only affecting teenage girls.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2025

In a city that’s too often unjustly stereotyped as favoring the new, the Hollywood studio reminds us of how much history — and, specifically, pop-culture myth-making — is rooted in and around Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2024

As wholes, or parts, with movement or just motionless figures, with special attention to the color spots or ignoring them, with lots of ideas or just a few stereotyped responses.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

The researchers found that buying into these false beliefs increased gender stereotyping and was associated with reduced support for pay equity policies.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026

At Culver City High School, Young’s 12th-grade ethnic studies literature class was in the middle of a unit on stereotyping, racial and ethnic representation and media literacy when the news surfaced.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026

The triumphs of the civil-rights movement made many overt forms of anti-Jewish discrimination illegal, but laws could not eliminate bigotry and stereotyping.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025

The public must "stand together against hatred and extremism", she said, and urged those in positions of influence to "consider how their language risks stereotyping communities and how it unduly influences discussions online and offline".

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025

I even had people who were the victims of stereotyping describe the dangers of labeling groups of people.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers




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