trope
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Industries of all kinds “tend to commodify us, commodify our body positivity, our agency, our female empowerment,” said Alison Trope, director of the Critical Media Project at the University of Southern California.
From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2021
A lawyer for the surgery centers, Konrad Trope, said the action against the facilities was dismissed without admission of liability or financial penalty.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2013
Also, when the pope meets Woodhouse, his doppelganger, Archer says, "Trope alert!" and a liberal arts film major gets her wings.
From Slate • Mar. 29, 2013
Psychologist Yaacov Trope argues that psychological distance may be one of the single most important steps you can take to improve thinking and decision-making.
From Scientific American • Jan. 4, 2013
The fifth Trope states that they 183 all, so to speak, assign causes according to their own hypotheses about the elements, but not according to any commonly accepted methods.
From Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Patrick, Mary Mills
Vocabulary lists containing trope
Poetry: Literary Devices
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Rhetoric
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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