archetype

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At least if they don’t understand the actual references they get the archetype.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

With his gym clothes, cross necklace, floppy hair, and singular fixation on linking all of his efforts and successes to his faith, the 19-year-old Pittman looked like the archetype of the Southern Christian sports bro.

From Slate • Jan. 22, 2026

To me, the 327/28 also set the archetype for BMW’s “M” cars—the high-performance line of road cars that BMW also sells all over the world today.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

With Club Gay Gardens, she and Torres sought to deconstruct that archetype.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025

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