genre
Example Sentences
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In a genre that often codes food as indulgence, this is maintenance.
From Salon
The novel and others in the genre caught fire in 2022, fueled by the success of “Icebreaker” by British author Hannah Grace.
It is especially popular for genres like romance, young adult fiction and "romantasy," often turning older books into sudden bestsellers.
From BBC
The instrument also paved the way to an aesthetics of electricity—feedback, distortion, fuzz, sheer volume—that led to such genres as heavy metal, punk, grunge and shoegaze.
A team first-person shooter in the vein of genre classics like "Counter-Strike", "Rainbow Six Siege" is one of Ubisoft's biggest titles, rewarding coordinated tactical play and deft use of destructible environments.
From Barron's
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