trope
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As James Henson put it to me, “The growth of the Latino population relative to the Anglo white population was going to be a lot more complicated than the demographical-destiny trope really took into account.”
From Slate β Sep. 21, 2026
Are you concerned that the “big dance in front of the house” trope will get tired?
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 4, 2026
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 β Aug. 14, 2026
There’s a comic trope beloved by playwrights, novelists and screenwriters about the fighters all suited up for battle, only to discover that their adversary refuses to play.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 30, 2026
“It’s just, all the girls were losing their shit over you guys, and I just. She tossed the shell back into the ocean. “I’m immune to the romantic pirate trope.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
"It makes sense" because it's a "short and intense" book and falls into one of the most popular tropes on TikTok, she said, citing popular narratives such as "friends becoming lovers."
From Barron's β Sep. 4, 2026
Season 2, now streaming on Hulu, embraces one of the sitcom’s most enduring tropes: the “will-they, won’t-they” romance.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 31, 2026
“Poltergeist” was, notably, a summertime Amblin release that similarly riffed on classic creature scares — updating dusty, old ghost tropes with new ideas — much like Mitchell does with his dino-time-travel extravaganza.
From Salon β Aug. 20, 2026
And as a source of income, it was also one of the newest iterations of the American dream, reliant on one of our oldest tropes.
From Slate β Aug. 20, 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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Poetry: Literary Devices
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