trope
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While the trope of young adults living with their parents has been played for laughs for years — the movie “Failure to Launch” came out in 2006 — the consequences are real.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 22, 2026
As James Henson put it to me, “The growth of the Latino population relative to the Anglo white population was going to be a lot more complicated than the demographical-destiny trope really took into account.”
From Slate β Sep. 21, 2026
Are you concerned that the “big dance in front of the house” trope will get tired?
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 4, 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 β Jul. 30, 2026
A trope, which is just a way to believe.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
"It makes sense" because it's a "short and intense" book and falls into one of the most popular tropes on TikTok, she said, citing popular narratives such as "friends becoming lovers."
From Barron's β Sep. 4, 2026
Yet the film is more than the deft redeployment of familiar tropes.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 3, 2026
Season 2, now streaming on Hulu, embraces one of the sitcom’s most enduring tropes: the “will-they, won’t-they” romance.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 31, 2026
And as a source of income, it was also one of the newest iterations of the American dream, reliant on one of our oldest tropes.
From Slate β Aug. 20, 2026
They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks, and with them a sensitivity to how they mesh and how they clash.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing trope
Poetry: Literary Devices
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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