typecasting
Example Sentences
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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
I haven’t named most of “The Traitors” third-season challengers because there are more than 20 of them, but the game’s psychology relies on typecasting on the part of players and viewers.
From Salon • Jan. 9, 2025
That kind of typecasting never appealed to Hill.
From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2024
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