pigeonhole

But she also defied the industry tendency to pigeonhole performers based on the breakout success of characters like Claire Bennet.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

In nonfiction, authors consider how we define wild places, how we pigeonhole the aging, and how languages live or die.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

To see how we’ve evolved from the era of pigeonhole desks to today’s Zoom calls, it’s worth taking a close look at 10 landmark inventions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025

"Aerospace has something for people with different backgrounds, different qualifications, there's so much variety. So don't pigeonhole yourself, there really is something for everyone here."

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2025

When the knock came on her door she put the envelopes in a pigeonhole of her desk.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Somewhere along the way if you're a young actor coming up, you can bet there are pigeonholes for everyone.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2024

“It pigeonholes you. I remember having a conversation with my dad in ’74.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2019

It occludes the far subtler and more interesting insights that a genius can provoke, and too confidently pigeonholes an individual who knowingly rejected the stifling limitations of his country’s artificial racial binary for a dupe.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2018

And nothing pigeonholes an artist faster than becoming a one-hit wonder — a fact of which he’s painfully aware.

From The Verge ● Nov. 12, 2015

Amy’s chief delight was an Indian cabinet, full of queer drawers, little pigeonholes, and secret places, in which were kept all sorts of ornaments, some precious, some merely curious, all more or less antique.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

But one gets the sense that Thatcher’s worried about being pigeonholed.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

If he was implying that the money was specifically pigeonholed for an accelerated retirement of government securities, that’s untrue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Jeff Li felt pigeonholed in his job in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

The American actor says she is "always" being pigeonholed into a certain role due to her age but she "resists at every turn".

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026

Second, developmental sequences are not invariant, so examples pigeonholed under the same stage are inevitably heterogeneous.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Many of the offers centered on capitalizing on their family names and pigeonholing them into commercial pop or hip-hop, which they tried and ultimately disliked.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

A whistleblower has told Panorama there was a "pattern" of "pigeonholing" small businesses as "distressed" when they were "salvageable".

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2025

Aside from the expressive art, “the story is not so much a story as an affirmation, about identity and being open to change and not pigeonholing yourself.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2023

It seems he had a bit of a fixation there for a couple of decades, but beyond that he defies pigeonholing.

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2023

It offers no nifty formulas for pigeonholing people or decoding folkways and manners.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times