typecast
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If it sued them, it might be typecast as an American agriculture giant stomping on Chinese farmers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
As the series grew in popularity, Apted started receiving push-back from some of the participants, who felt they had been typecast based on their backgrounds.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
"I'm not saying that all Rohingya are good. There are good and bad people in every community. So why should a few individuals' actions be used to typecast a whole community?"
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
She got small parts in “Mad Men” and “Rent,” but has said she “was typecast as a trophy wife and kind of put into this box.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Dead tired, I imagined, of the arguments, of the disapproval, and of being typecast.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
The Duchess of Sussex will speak with historians and experts to "uncover the origin of these stereotypes and have uncensored conversations with women who know all too well how these typecasts shape narratives."
From Fox News ● Mar. 24, 2022
Along with pay issues, many filmmakers are looking for stories that move beyond female typecasts.
From Reuters ● Jan. 27, 2018
“The question is whether Jack Dorsey on the product side is willing to break some typecasts at the company and come in with a fresh perspective.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2015
Yet his gift for comedy means he can't help wisecracking in these meetings, and I suspect it further typecasts him as the much-loved Jack Donaghy character from 30 Rock.
From The Guardian ● May 19, 2013
He neither patronizes his Italian civilians, typecasts his G.I.s nor falsifies his combat scenes, which prove as taut as any fiction footage yet shot about World War II.
From Time Magazine Archive
Moving through discussions of Malcolm McDowell’s typecasting and group lessons in Irish, led by Cushla, they will go beyond gazing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Despite this typecasting, she would later go on to make her mark, first in theatre and then in various TV shows and films by the 1990s.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025
In Bruce Graham’s “Funnyman,” at Chicago’s Northlight Theatre in 2015, he played a comic cast in a serious play, breaking out of typecasting.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025
This hero's death slices Pascal’s protective father typecasting by half.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2025
That kind of typecasting never appealed to Hill.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2024
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Theater - Middle School
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