Plural for a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing
“An inconspicuous, soft-spoken man, Bruckheimer contradicts the stereotype of the high-powered Hollywood executive.”
Plural for a widely held formula or mold for conceptualizing or expressing something
“Participants were instructed to avoid using the stereotype of Americans in writing their stories.”
To view or represent someone or something in a conventional, formulaic and oversimplified manner
“He was careful, however, to warn against lace or embroidery or anything that might stereotype him as a fop.”
To make uninteresting or trite by frequent use
“Political leaders regularly stereotype them and reduce them to one-word fashionable cultural issues.”
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