archetype
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But it also plays into an archetype we love to hate — the femme fatale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Juice will monitor Jupiter's complex magnetic, radiation and plasma environment in depth and its interplay with the moons, studying the Jupiter system as an archetype for gas giant systems across the Universe.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
With unruly hair, round glasses, an affable demeanor and a taste for V-neck sweaters, Amodei is worlds away from the corporate executive archetype -- and seems to be motivated by something his peers are not.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
“Cars are like the archetype of human industrial design,” Bhatt told me in San Carlos, Calif., where we sat down for The WSJ Money Interview.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
But for anyone who's more familiar with the strict-foreign-parent archetype in popular culture, let's break down the stereotypes associated with Persian moms and dads.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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If the box office is a fair, measurable indicator of how the public feels about these superhero archetypes, guess what?
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
“A lot of them were exploring otherness and self-discovery through the archetypes of the genre because it was a way to express it at a time when those ideas were taboo,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
"Despite both athletes sharing similar racial backgrounds and first-generation immigrant experiences," Prof He says, "they have been cast as opposing archetypes in a narrative they didn't write".
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
The script, written by Bertie Brandes and Aidan Zamiri, who also directs, draws heavily on archetypes in a plot that sticks closely to the familiar artist-against-the-machine formula.
From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026
Often great liberties in the way of revision and even abridgment of the text were taken by the scholars of the time, and, once transcribed, the old archetypes were neglected or even destroyed.
From The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts Helps for Students of History, No. 17. by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James
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