pigeonholing

verb

Definition of pigeonholingnext
present participle of pigeonhole
as in categorizing
disapproving to unfairly think of or describe (someone or something) as belonging to only a certain category She likes to perform different types of music because she doesn't want to be pigeonholed.

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pigeonholing
  1. classifying
  2. separating
  3. identifying
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  • The National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint Wednesday against the popular Netflix dating show, classifying its stars as employees and accusing the program of several labor violations.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Those deaths aren't counted in our statistics, and that's primarily because of the difficulty in classifying those deaths in a disaster.
    Melody Schreiber, NPR, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of classifying
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  • While standard mascaras do the trick in lengthening, volumizing, darkening, and separating your lashes, waterproof mascaras are better suited for long-wear and durability.
    Sarah Han, Allure, 24 Dec. 2024
  • In 1973, after separating from Jim, Alice was one of six artists featured in Maclean’s as models for women in Canada.
    Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of separating
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  • In addition to identifying the main elements of a settlement, the United States needs a plan for getting there.
    Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Dogs, for example, seem to have pretty unique nose prints and at least one startup reached 95% accuracy in identifying dogs that had their nose-prints previously recorded.
    David G.W. Birch, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of identifying
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