pigeonholed

Example Sentences

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Many actors are pigeonholed by a successful TV series.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 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

With a roughed-up face that defied Hollywood glamour, Hackman helped carve a path for unconventional leading men who in another era might have been pigeonholed as side characters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

If that seems like a change from the feminist speculative fiction of her breakthrough, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Atwood has refused to be pigeonholed.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025

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