pigeonhole

Though it may pain me to say, as a frequent critic of Levinson’s work, it’s clear that even he knew that it would be all too easy for executives to pigeonhole Demie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

“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

Regarding, Laura's edit: The show needs a villain, and in many instances, they try to pigeonhole someone who doesn't, in any way, fit those criteria.

From Salon ● May 22, 2024

This bit of common sense, sometimes termed the pigeonhole or Dirichlet drawer principle, can occasionally be used to derive claims that are not so obvious.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

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

Everything that’s wrong with this place is the way we put everyone in pigeonholes.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2020

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2019

She put all of her papers neatly in the pigeonholes of her desk, and when Joe brought the tea tray she had him put it beside her bed.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

British coach Fran Jones - a namesake of the British number four - found herself "pigeonholed" coaching under-14s without being aware of opportunities that existed beyond that level.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

Many actors are pigeonholed by a successful TV series.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 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

It’s so intentionally inclusive and ambitious that it turns right back around to feel limiting, pigeonholing Maddie into a place where she feels in constant competition with her colleagues and herself.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

Where artists used to hate being pigeonholed, now they do the pigeonholing themselves.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2023

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

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

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times