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
So much is Beau Bob's type-cast flippancy like Jimmy's that Hope needs only to be himself to portray convincingly the sleek, fun-prone Irishman who for six years symbolized the big town's Prohibition era.
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 Fairman, Paul W.
Directing, as this yarn suggests, is 90 percent type-casting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
Once you’re the villain, it’s just about impossible to break the type-casting A lawsuit says that Stablegains lost $44 million in investors’ money.
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
David Bruce of New York, in 1838, invented the first successful type-casting machine, which, when shortly afterward it was perfected, became the model for type-casting machines for Europe and America.
From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry
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