archetype
Example Sentences
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To evaluate a dog’s alterations, said Packer, consider how much it deviates from the original archetype: the wolf.
“It’s no longer about piloting and learning about what adaptation is and what it means and what the archetypes are,” Gbadegesin said.
Tesla is the modern archetype: a car company with much broader ambitions and a never-ending story about vast success on the way…soon.
Like many of her peers, Smart-McCabe grew up envisioning home gardeners as conforming to a very particular archetype: usually wealthy, often white and always women.
From Los Angeles Times
The change was a dramatic departure from the archetype of the all-powerful football coach, whose dominion extended from the playbook to high-school recruiting.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
