trope

Dickinson plumbs this trope of grief, but uses it to reveal the nature of art itself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

While the trope of young adults living with their parents has been played for laughs for years — the movie “Failure to Launch” came out in 2006 — the consequences are real.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

As James Henson put it to me, “The growth of the Latino population relative to the Anglo white population was going to be a lot more complicated than the demographical-destiny trope really took into account.”

From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026

“There’s this trope, isn’t there, where she lets her down, she’s beautiful, everyone gasps,” observed Bruccoleri.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

Parallel wording is a powerful trope, but after dying and being born, being here in my place and seeing the light of day, enough is enough.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

"It makes sense" because it's a "short and intense" book and falls into one of the most popular tropes on TikTok, she said, citing popular narratives such as "friends becoming lovers."

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

Yet the film is more than the deft redeployment of familiar tropes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Season 2, now streaming on Hulu, embraces one of the sitcom’s most enduring tropes: the “will-they, won’t-they” romance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

And as a source of income, it was also one of the newest iterations of the American dream, reliant on one of our oldest tropes.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

Not unless she is imagined to be more than tired tropes and predictable clichés.

From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan