pigeonhole

“If we embrace narrow group-based identities too fiercely, we cling to the very cages in which others would seek to trap us. We pigeonhole ourselves.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026

"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

Although we might pigeonhole them into this genre, they’re very versatile and talented.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025

I’ve noticed that messages from readers increasingly tend to pigeonhole, label or categorize.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024

We waited for Mr. Lias at the drug store because Cold Sassy’s post office was in there, a big pigeonhole desk over where the telephone central switchboard used to be.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

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

His fundamental theme is how social media pigeonholes us and mines our data, a condescending phenomenon that treats us less like human beings than abstractions made up of marketable information.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2022

From left: Withings ScanWatch, Fossil Hybrid HR, Skagen Jorn, Fossil Gen 6 Hybrid What bothers me about the Stella design is how it somewhat pigeonholes your style.

From The Verge ● Jul. 16, 2022

“At this point in my career, I have a reasonably good sense of the pigeonholes that I’ve either carved out for myself or been jammed into over the past couple of decades,” said Helms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2021

Based on these mini-experiments, modern grammarians have sorted words into grammatical categories that sometimes differ from the traditional pigeonholes.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

“I don’t want to be pigeonholed as the assassin.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

Sometimes pigeonholed as just a goalscorer, Haaland has 24 assists in three seasons for Manchester City in the Premier League and Europe, compared with 26 at Bayern for Kane.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

“You can get pigeonholed really quickly,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 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

Raphael Benza, head of Johannesburg-based record label Vth Season, says the very name Best African Performance goes against pigeonholing.

From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2025

I was intrigued then when the pollster YouGuv, in combination with The Economist magazine, decided to take pigeonholing to a whole different level.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024

While pigeonholing has no place in their work, finishing each other’s sentences is a big part of the process.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 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