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stereotype
noun as in idea held as standard, example
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average, boilerplate, convention, custom, fashion, formula, institution, mold
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verb as in categorize as being example, standard
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catalogue, conventionalize, define, dub, institutionalize, normalize, regulate, standardize, systematize, typecast
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Example Sentences
Nicola added: "People do pigeon hole us. I want to breakdown that stereotype, I have a full and happy life."
But the stereotype of romance-hungry women and love-reluctant men doesn't reflect reality.
We should break the stereotype that it is only curry — that’s not true.
Vimal says there's a stereotype that British Asian parents prefer their children to focus on their school work.
To suggest that a Black person is lazy is a very old white racist stereotype that has its origins in white on Black chattel slavery and the American apartheid system that deemed Black people as incapable of full citizenship, “natural” slaves, childlike and members of a subordinate and inferior group that was unfit for freedom.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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