- past tense form of pigeonhole.
- past participle of pigeonhole.
pigeonholed
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Steinem said that she was pigeonholed because of the story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
But one gets the sense that Thatcher’s worried about being pigeonholed.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 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
Jazz celebrity though he was, Duke Ellington disliked his music being pigeonholed as ‘jazz’; he preferred simply to call it ‘American music’, and he experimented in many forms and genres.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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