archetypal
Example Sentences
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For the latter half of samurai history, armor was a facade, a largely symbolic display of authority for an archetypal military class whose members became bureaucrats and eventually pop-culture icons.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026
His early characters were consistently archetypal, plucked from the average high school experience.
From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026
I also think we want these archetypal angels in women's sport, who are role models, do everything perfectly and say all the right things.
From BBC • Nov. 5, 2025
Within minutes, we’d found a red-capped, white-dotted Amanita muscaria, the archetypal fairy-tale mushroom, which felt like spotting a celebrity in the grocery store.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025
The shadowshapers’ mythology revolves around an archetypal spirit named Lucera, who apparently vanished mysteriously a few months back, not long after I entered the fold.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
Vocabulary lists containing archetypal
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