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archetype

[ahr-ki-tahyp] / ˈɑr kɪˌtaɪp /


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Juice will monitor Jupiter's complex magnetic, radiation and plasma environment in depth and its interplay with the moons, studying the Jupiter system as an archetype for gas giant systems across the Universe.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

The horrible-boss archetype has been a Hollywood trope for generations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

The unifying archetype of the femme fatale, however, elevated Laferte’s songbook to a new level of cinematic noir.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

When it was time for my solo outing, I chose an archetype much closer to my heart: the cozy crime solver.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026

The new warehouse chief looked like the Englishman archetype Obinze carried in his mind, tall and spare, sandy-haired and blue-eyed.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The sessions went so well that Morali asked Willis to front the group, which adopted campy archetypes of masculinity — cop, cowboy and construction worker among them — in their stage costumes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

In his telling, two distinct social archetypes rooted in the era of England’s 17th-century civil war—the Cavalier and the Puritan—were symbolized by the ships of his title, the White Lion and the Mayflower.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

"Despite both athletes sharing similar racial backgrounds and first-generation immigrant experiences," Prof He says, "they have been cast as opposing archetypes in a narrative they didn't write".

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026

The script, written by Bertie Brandes and Aidan Zamiri, who also directs, draws heavily on archetypes in a plot that sticks closely to the familiar artist-against-the-machine formula.

From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026

He shewed the distinctiveness of each plan of structure, and then discussed the relations of the ideas suggested by Von Baer to these archetypes.

From Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work by P. Chalmers (Peter Chalmers) Mitchell




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