archetypical
- a variation of archetypal.
- a word derived from archetype.
Example Sentences
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Boritt, a Hungarian refugee who became an influential historian of two archetypical American subjects—Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War—died on Feb. 2 in Chambersburg, Pa. He was 86.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
With his Buzz Lightyear-like square jaw and clean cut appearance, he comes across as the archetypical heroic astronaut.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2025
Its destruction was also an archetypical North American ecological disaster.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2023
She is writing a book about archetypical lesbian spaces.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2022
Neanderthals are often depicted in caricatures as the archetypical brutish and stupid ‘cave people’, but recent evidence has changed their image.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
