stereotype
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A modest shift in consumer behavior hardened into a cultural stereotype.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
In an April 2015 interview shortly after Bumble's launch, Herd Wolfe told the Toronto Star it was a "stereotype to say women like to sit back and want men to come to them".
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
The findings build on Levy’s stereotype embodiment theory.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 2026
On both sides there’s an increased desire to shape kids’ futures and buck the absent-father stereotype.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
But I’m not gonna stereotype the whole white race just for a few bigots.
From "Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago" by LeAlan Jones
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Title IX was meant to combat demeaning and exclusionary sex stereotypes.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
Jennifer Siebel Newsom signaled she wanted to break down gender stereotypes by taking on the title “first partner” rather than “first lady,” but this could open her up to criticism too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Such programs help tackle loneliness, stereotypes and ageism.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Advocates and researchers say this practice perpetuates negative stereotypes and harms the lives and business of real people.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Those of us in the civil rights community are not immune to the racial stereotypes that pervade media imagery and political rhetoric; nor do we operate outside of the political context.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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What the reporting revealed was a continuing debate over whether Gen Z is everything from coddled to unfairly stereotyped and how it will fare at work in the future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
"A lot of this comes down to shared problems that we have in the South Asian community of how South Asian boys and how South Asian girls might be stereotyped amongst football," she says.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026
Eating disorders are themselves understudied within the mental health field, where conditions like anorexia have incorrectly been stereotyped as only affecting teenage girls.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2025
But he also described how he uses it strategically, avoiding “things that are cringe” and anything that might risk getting him stereotyped as the Gen Z legislator.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025
Straightway a meeting was called among the colored people, under the stereotyped notice, “Business of importance!”
From "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass
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The researchers found that buying into these false beliefs increased gender stereotyping and was associated with reduced support for pay equity policies.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
The triumphs of the civil-rights movement made many overt forms of anti-Jewish discrimination illegal, but laws could not eliminate bigotry and stereotyping.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
Baxter abolished gender stereotyping before the phrase was invented.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025
The stereotyping bothers her, but in school, “People actually found it really interesting and cool” that she had two dads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2024
I even had people who were the victims of stereotyping describe the dangers of labeling groups of people.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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