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
But he seemed to struggle to break out of his royal typecast role in the US.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
“I was typecast to the point where I didn’t make a film for five years after ‘Harold and Maude,’” Cort told The Times in 1996.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
He had a prolific career but struggled with feeling typecast, he told BBC News Igbo back in 2021, which made him turn to content creation as a way to find more freedom.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
Volpe does not like to typecast his actors, though in high school it is sometimes unavoidable.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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
Our mythic democracy typecasts the Adamses as misfits, as poor representatives of a transformative idea that, even now, some lovers of country think of as divinely inspired.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 13, 2019
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
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
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
This hero's death slices Pascal’s protective father typecasting by half.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2025
There’s stretches where he stayed so hectic that I wonder if he was still insecure about his longevity, his typecasting, his face.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
Yet the controversy had the effect of typecasting Gurba as the impudent indie writer willing to torch the publishing industry to make a point about diversity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
The typecasting as wallflowers and frumps confused her.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2023
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Theater - Middle School
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Theater - High School
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