type-cast
Americanverb (used with or without object)
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of type-cast
First recorded in 1875–80
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Executive producer Michelle Paradise told IndieWire that she and fellow executive producer Alex Kurtzman type-cast Ms. Abrams as president of Earth.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
Jane,” he won leading roles in “The Brothers” and “Two Can Play That Game” and was soon type-cast as the heartthrob.
From Time ● Nov. 14, 2013
I wonder if he's not worried about getting type-cast for the rest of his career.
From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2012
There are two kinds of Frenchmen in Algeria, and no two men were ever more ironically type-cast than Pierre Lagaillarde and Pierre Popie.
From Time Magazine Archive
Senator Crane was the exact opposite of Brent, in that he looked to be exactly what he was; a figure rigidly type-cast to the role of a blustering, tactless servant of the people.
From Ten From Infinity by Paul W. Fairman
Directing, as this yarn suggests, is 90 percent type-casting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
But as Pratt eventually discovered, once you’re the villain, it’s just about impossible to break the type-casting.
From The Verge ● May 20, 2022
I don’t know if it was type-casting and I can’t ask him now, but I feel like part of that was a subconscious, conscious effort.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2021
There’s a nasty, pervasive rumor in circulation that camp sullies the mainstream careers of stars like Madonna and Crawford, type-casting them forever as the embodiments of cheap jokes.
From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2013
Monotype Keyboard The Lanston Monotype is a type-casting machine which produces separate types set in lines of any length, up to sixty ems pica, spaced and justified.
From Type Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #1 by A. A. Stewart
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