How to Use typology in a Sentence

typology

noun
  • To say this all neat typology strains credulity is to miss the point and be miserable.
    Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Ehrman Crest redefines the typology of a classroom, which sometimes has a sterile feel to it.
    Kellie B. Gormly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The typology of small and young companies that SBDCs seek to serve is different from just a few years ago let alone a few decades ago.
    Dane Stangler, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Pew released its latest typology on Tuesday, the eighth in the series.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Emily Ekins of the Cato Institute provides a typology of the Trump coalition.
    Dan Balz, Washington Post, 13 June 2017
  • At the heart of the book is FitzGerald’s compelling typology of offshore border strategies in use today.
    Paul A. Kramer, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2019
  • As a typology, the mall is ideally suited to Dallas, because the mall caters to two of the city’s favorite pastimes: driving and shopping.
    Dallas News, 27 July 2022
  • The story posits that the rental market for single-family homes has held up because renters of that typology have more money.
    Roger Valdez, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Small restaurants will likely move from the boy in the bubble idea to a shifted typology of curated market and takeaway.
    Sunset Magazine, 6 Aug. 2020
  • This is how the adventure began, looking for what would be the ideal typology for a spacious food hall in Manhattan.
    Vanessa Lawrence, ELLE Decor, 3 Apr. 2019
  • Their typology keeps intruding: If only the set-up could somehow be more organic, more true, and if only the heart could be more engaged.
    Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • And the internal rifts within both parties have shifted somewhat since the last Pew typology report four years ago.
    Jennifer Agiesta, CNN, 9 Nov. 2021
  • By the way, there’s a long connection between the Los Angeles Times and the political typology project.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Other late-modern masters bent and waved mirrored glass and invented new typologies from steel and aluminum.
    Sam Lubell, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2015
  • Those typologies would be well known to virtually any Chicagoan: Single-family bungalow, two-flat, three-flat, six-flat and row house.
    Jeffrey Steele, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Adding to the difficulty in setting the variations of stones is that each watch had to be adjusted according to the typology, hardness and other specifics according to the makeup of each type of stone.
    Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The plotline reads as a fascination with the typology of a young, charismatic president who has an unusual connection to the pulse of his country.
    Courtney Sender, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2022
  • In Melancholia, the sisters’ typologies change at surface level.
    Mallika Rao, The Atlantic, 9 May 2020
  • While the typologies and clients may change, Yazdani Studio always seems to pivot back to culture, creating spaces that can shape interactions.
    Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 11 Apr. 2018
  • There are also other Jewish groups which don’t fit neatly into this typology.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2011
  • And governments should get out of the way, allowing producer and consumer to meet to exchange value regardless of what the typology or size or location of housing might be.
    Roger Valdez, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
  • On the same day Flake bowed out, the Pew Research Center released a fascinating 152-page report on the nation’s political typology.
    James Hohmann, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2017
  • In his 2001 book Dividing Lines, Daniel Tichenor offers a helpful typology for making sense of the immigration debate.
    Reihan Salam, Slate Magazine, 30 Jan. 2017
  • My point here was to illustrate not only that typologies can co-exist happily on the same block but that the very diversity in typology was, in fact, what gives 14th its identity.
    Roger Valdez, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Whatever their provenance, typology or scope, crises have the potential to do significant and far-reaching damage.
    Erika James, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2022
  • But Harvard’s recent mandate goes further, creating a new literary typology: On one side are the marginalized authors; on the other, authors who, by implication, may have...
    Heather Mac Donald, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2017
  • The Myers-Briggs, which is based off of Jungian typology, sorts people into 16 hard-and-fast personality categories.
    Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2020
  • The 1,300-square-foot structure’s typology can be easily tailored to any individual site and owner as part of a series of customizable home designs.
    Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Just like the Turkish Twitch streamers, this is a money-laundering typology that generally entails young people being duped into receiving and transferring funds for criminal networks in exchange for a cut of the proceeds.
    Timothy Lloyd, The New Republic, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Each averages more than a million views plus a slew of comments, which the researchers coded into various categories based on an existing typology of attitudes towards animals.
    Jessica Leigh Hester, WIRED, 7 May 2018

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