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Definition of stereotype

as in concept

an idea or statement about all of the members of a group or all the instances of a situation the noble savage was a stereotype that appealed to 18th-century intellectuals, who viewed European civilization as decadent and corrupt

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verb

ˈster-ē-ə-ˌtīp

as in to overuse

to use so much as to make less appealing Movies have stereotyped the domineering mother-in-law ad nauseam.

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The thing that Fran Leibowitz says is that stereotypes tend to be true. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 25 Sep. 2026 These defenses rest on antisemitic undertones and give license to more obvious antisemitic stereotypes. — Kenneth L. Marcus, New York Daily News, 25 Sep. 2026

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Sleep apnea is still stereotyped as affecting older, overweight men, which means women’s more subtle symptoms are often not thoroughly investigated by doctors. — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 4 Aug. 2026 Along with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, the foundation also partners with schools and community institutions to educate the challenging effects of stereotyping, unconscious bias, and representation imbalance of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and persons with disabilities. — Carole Horst, Variety, 21 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for stereotype

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Advances in electrical power systems, tracking technology, beam control and compact high-energy lasers are making the concept increasingly practical.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026
Though the idea proved nearly impossible to fully realize, the concept of a more fluid, non-rigid weaving style became central to Wiener’s practice.

— Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026

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There are a handful of very effective jump scares, especially early on, but Cregger wisely doesn’t overuse them.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2026
But 1984 is continuously overused by fans as evidence of what the program can achieve.

— The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of overuse

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And there’s also all these preconceived notions about you that are out there that are associated with [you] because your body is your art, right?

— Tanya Fedak, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026
And, like any good party, someone had a notion that the others loved — and so the players trudged back onto the field to have a team photo taken in front of the Crown Vision board still displaying a congratulatory message to the White Sox.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2026

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Risk, legal and compliance leaders belong in the room from the moment of conception, not the approval stage.

— Olufunsho Peters, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026
The first is the art history of the work, which includes its conception, its construction, and its place within Serra’s practice overall.

— Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

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The twin tubes, bored at a rate of roughly 30 feet per day, will take about a year to dig.

— Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 28 Sep. 2026
Best Neutral This solid-colored wool rug was the perfect neutral-but-not-boring option for the space between visuals editor Lizzie Soufleris’ living room and dining area.

— Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 26 Sep. 2026

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Contrary to the traditional labor theory of value, which calculates the value of a good or service through the amount of labor required to produce it, Poliks and Trillo posit latency and delay to be the true sources of value.

— Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Such questions are critical to a long-standing puzzle of percolation theory, a subfield of probability theory focused on the permeability of networks.

— Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2026

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Keurig’s new single-serve coffee machine delivers the same convenience that helped popularize its appliances but without the use of recyclable pods made from plastic and aluminum.

— Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 2 Oct. 2026
As the author of A Theory of Semiotics (1976) and Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1984), Eco did more than any other scholar to establish and popularize the field in his home country.

— Bartolomeo Sala, The Dial, 29 Sep. 2026

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