trope
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“Women don’t want to see your fish,” a man reads in one ad, referring to the trope of men showing off fish they’ve caught in dating-app profiles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026
The cop on his last day before retirement is a trope that needs to be sent out to pasture.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026
Magazines, of course, didn’t originate the longstanding trope of a new year as a site of reinvention, clean slates, new leaves.
From Salon • Jan. 17, 2026
Spy thrillers have also long featured prominently, often portraying Pakistan as the biggest threat to India - a familiar trope rooted in decades of geopolitical tension between the two countries.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
