trope
Example Sentences
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Through some inventive structures and a playful rewiring of romantic tropes going back to Homer, Groff stitches together a portrait of a marriage that she then carefully unravels.
From Los Angeles Times
Leveling the upstairs-downstairs division between master and servant, or boss and worker drone, is one of the oldest tropes in the Land of Make-Believe.
From Salon
“Women don’t want to see your fish,” a man reads in one ad, referring to the trope of men showing off fish they’ve caught in dating-app profiles.
The cop on his last day before retirement is a trope that needs to be sent out to pasture.
From Los Angeles Times
The other three stars of that show fought hard against that trope and typecasting.
From Los Angeles Times
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