trope
Example Sentences
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Male actors playing female roles were a familiar trope across global theatre, from Europe to Japan and China.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 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
The documentary echoes the protagonists of Jack London novels — men up against the wild, grappling for survival — a trope Woliner enjoys.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025
Our family had long used the “eldest daughter” inheritance trope to forestall bad feelings.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 21, 2025
To borrow a trope from the historian Alfred Crosby, if Genghis Khan had arrived with the Black Death, this book would not be written in a European language.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
