archetypal
Example Sentences
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At their best, America’s regionalists created something timeless and archetypal from the specifics of their settings.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026
In a separate study published in The Seismic Record, researchers described the Maeser earthquake as an "archetypal continental mantle event."
From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026
Garcia, a career law enforcement officer who has cast himself in the political mold of conservative Texas Democrats Rep. Henry Cuellar and Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, is an archetypal candidate for a competitive race like this.
From Slate • May 22, 2026
His early characters were consistently archetypal, plucked from the average high school experience.
From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026
This is in some ways the archetypal Lois Weisberg story.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
Vocabulary lists containing archetypal
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"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak, Part Four
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"'Blaxicans' and Other Reinvented Americans," Vocabulary from the argument
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