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trope

[trohp] / troʊp /


NOUN
metaphor
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WEAK
plain speech


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Industries of all kinds “tend to commodify us, commodify our body positivity, our agency, our female empowerment,” said Alison Trope, director of the Critical Media Project at the University of Southern California.

From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2021

A lawyer for the surgery centers, Konrad Trope, said the action against the facilities was dismissed without admission of liability or financial penalty.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2013

Also, when the pope meets Woodhouse, his doppelganger, Archer says, "Trope alert!" and a liberal arts film major gets her wings.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2013

Psychologist Yaacov Trope argues that psychological distance may be one of the single most important steps you can take to improve thinking and decision-making.

From Scientific American • Jan. 4, 2013

Therefore, by this Trope also, we must suspend our judgment in regard to the nature of external objects.

From Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Patrick, Mary Mills




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