How to Use stereotyped in a Sentence

stereotyped

adjective
  • All that fire and horror and angst feel stereotyped in their own right.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2021
  • But Brazilians longed for a more nuanced, less stereotyped portrait.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Instead of stereotyped as a nerd who spends all of his time with a controller in his hands, he is seen as an elite competitor.
    — Dallas News, 7 May 2020
  • The findings, Vitale said, show that cats, stereotyped as distant loners, have gotten a bad rap.
    — oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2019
  • For years, Asian women have been stereotyped as quiet, passive, and compliant.
    — Deanna Pai, Glamour, 24 May 2018
  • On the other side, bisexual women are almost always stereotyped to be straight.
    — Eliel Cruz, SELF, 1 July 2017
  • The litany of restrictions might seem odd for a state that’s solidly Democratic and is known—or at least stereotyped—as being easygoing and fun.
    — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Jews had been stereotyped for centuries across Europe as devious and untrustworthy.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • But notice how the actual phototransduction event itself is very stereotyped.
    — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Among this armory of social signals are stereotyped, formal invitations to potential mates.
    — James Shreeve, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Finally, in a co-ed setting, girls feel the pressures to conform to more stereotyped gender roles, rather than feeling empowered to seek new challenges and take initiative.
    — Marissa Miller, Teen Vogue, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Sartre’s protagonist believes the singer is black and the songwriter Jewish, a stereotyped reversal.
    — Gary Giddins, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2018
  • That may be why platinum hair holds special significance among Asian women, who historically have been stereotyped as quiet and obedient.
    — Deanna Pai, Glamour, 4 May 2018
  • Another problem, of course, is that the data on which the models are trained—billions of words taken from digital sources—contain plenty of prejudiced and stereotyped statements about people.
    — David Berreby, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Raised in West Virginia, Sheldon was tentative about documenting addiction in a coal region that is more stereotyped than understood.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, latimes.com, 6 July 2018
  • This is a directed, stereotyped behavior in which the highest-resolution region of the somatosensory surface is brought to bear on the object requiring the most detailed analysis.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • People who saw words like ‘chaos’, ‘anarchy’ and ‘mess’ expressed a stronger desire for structure, and more stereotyped views, than those who saw orderly words like ‘structure’, ‘clarity’ and ‘neat’, or neutral ones like ‘chair’, ‘table’ or ‘ball’.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2011
  • In the past, Orange has emphasized the humanity of the female inmates, showing the emotional complexity and troubled histories of women who are often stereotyped or unfairly judged.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 9 June 2017
  • Throughout his 40-year career, this award-winning artist has transformed the history of oppressed and stereotyped segments of the American experience into lyrical two-dimensional master works.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Across the country, place names are being replaced with their Indigenous ones, statues of conquistadors and commanders in the Indian Wars are being taken down, and sports teams are ditching their stereotyped Indigenous mascots.
    — Alex Seitz-Wald, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2023

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