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The “Anything But Bonds” trope will only end, Hartnett contends, if Warsh signals hawkish at the Jackson Hole symposium Aug. 28, and both the Fed and Bank of Japan tighten monetary policy in September.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

The continuing “No Ordinary Love” campaign speaks to the Gen Z-led revival of the romance genre as well as the AI-era’s reading-as-a-status-symbol trope.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

She digs into why it’s so appealing—and why it’s also become the most abused trope on BookTok.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

There’s a comic trope beloved by playwrights, novelists and screenwriters about the fighters all suited up for battle, only to discover that their adversary refuses to play.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

To Colin's mind, the rooster crowing at dawn was nothing more than a literary and cinematic trope.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

These tropes course through in Alex Haley’s “Roots” TV miniseries and Oscar-nominated melodramas like “Glory” and “Amistad,” as well as acclaimed 21st-century films like “Django Unchained” and “12 Years a Slave.”

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026

In Hollywood films and literary tropes, spiders come ideologically loaded and are frequently coupled with the feminine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

And then there’s literary chameleon Silvia Moreno-Garcia, who slips into a dark and steamy tale steeped in the tropes of James M. Cain, recent Mexican history and telenovelas.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

Although Cristle and Sunny’s paths don’t cross frequently, both are bucking certain tropes.

From Salon ● May 11, 2026

But as I’ll hope to show, figures and tropes are essentially very straightforward things that happen to have Greek and Latin names.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith