archetypically
- a word derived from archetype.
Example Sentences
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“A lot of times when you make movies about soldiers, they get archetypically pigeonholed as either heroes or broken people that need healing,” says Carolin.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 11, 2022
It is between 15 degrees and -5 degrees Fahrenheit that the archetypically beautiful snowflakes usually form.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2021
She also gloriously queers the archetypically hetero coupling at the center of Titanic, noting:
From Slate • Feb. 20, 2020
Writing in this magazine in 1980, George W. S. Trow, Jr., observed of Baker, “Her artifice . . . depended on the effectiveness of certain small collisions—between things archetypically feminine, archetypically masculine, archetypically Negro, archetypically white.”
From The New Yorker • Mar. 23, 2015
If the great male detectives are archetypically loners, female detectives are doubly so.
From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2010
