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trope

[trohp] / troʊp /


NOUN
metaphor
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
plain speech


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The “Anything But Bonds” trope will only end, Hartnett contends, if Warsh signals hawkish at the Jackson Hole symposium Aug. 28, and both the Fed and Bank of Japan tighten monetary policy in September.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

The continuing “No Ordinary Love” campaign speaks to the Gen Z-led revival of the romance genre as well as the AI-era’s reading-as-a-status-symbol trope.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

She digs into why it’s so appealing—and why it’s also become the most abused trope on BookTok.

From Slate Aug. 6, 2026

Hopkins registered the trademark in 2018 and began contacting authors who had also used the descriptor — and the list was long, because the cocky, arrogant hero is a romance trope.

From Salon Jul. 7, 2026

“Well, right now, it’s the desert island trope that’s sucking me down. Would you help me out of here?”

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

If you can’t get enough of that show’s visual irony, metatextual references and winking at entertainment tropes, here’s 10 more episodes of the same feeling, only Earthbound.

From Salon Jul. 25, 2026

Cali Adeline’s debut novel ‘People Watching in the Desert’ uses the tropes of a breezy summer getaway to explore the thorny, Didion-esque ethics of the stories we tell about others.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

These tropes course through in Alex Haley’s “Roots” TV miniseries and Oscar-nominated melodramas like “Glory” and “Amistad,” as well as acclaimed 21st-century films like “Django Unchained” and “12 Years a Slave.”

From Salon Jun. 19, 2026

It includes many of the genre’s customary tropes, including intergenerational conflict, suspenseful showdowns, and self-absorbed, eccentric players for whom character may turn out to be destiny.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 3, 2026

But as I’ll hope to show, figures and tropes are essentially very straightforward things that happen to have Greek and Latin names.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith




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