Typify
verb
To represent or show something in a typical way.
He typifies the modern artist.
Often appears as...
- typify a generation
- typify the culture
verb
To be a typical example of something.
This building typifies the architecture of the region.
Often appears as...
- typify an era
- typify a period
verb
To represent or show something in a typical way.
He typifies the modern artist.
Often appears as...
- typify a generation
- typify the culture
verb
To be a typical example of something.
This building typifies the architecture of the region.
Often appears as...
- typify an era
- typify a period
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Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Representation
Used when something embodies widespread traits of a specific group or time period.
The artwork in the café typifies 1950s Americana.
Pro Tip 2/3Non-Personal
Typify usually describes objects or concepts, not individuals, unless symbolically.
The term 'hipster' often typifies a subculture, not an individual.
Pro Tip 3/3Subjectivity
What typifies something can be subjective, varying by individual perspective.
To many, Shakespeare's works typify English literature.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Representation
Used when something embodies widespread traits of a specific group or time period.
The artwork in the café typifies 1950s Americana.
Pro Tip 2/3Non-Personal
Typify usually describes objects or concepts, not individuals, unless symbolically.
The term 'hipster' often typifies a subculture, not an individual.
Pro Tip 3/3Subjectivity
What typifies something can be subjective, varying by individual perspective.
To many, Shakespeare's works typify English literature.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Representation
Used when something embodies widespread traits of a specific group or time period.
The artwork in the café typifies 1950s Americana.
Pro Tip 2/3Non-Personal
Typify usually describes objects or concepts, not individuals, unless symbolically.
The term 'hipster' often typifies a subculture, not an individual.
Pro Tip 3/3Subjectivity
What typifies something can be subjective, varying by individual perspective.
To many, Shakespeare's works typify English literature.
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Everything you think you...
You are angry a lot of the time, and I think one of the reasons why this debate is so charged is because it runs through the heart of each of us, right? Everyone has a bit of them that looks at an addict and thinks, I wish someone would just stop you. And the kind of scripts we're told for how to deal with the addicts in our lives is typified by, I think,
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Why we make bad...
This typifies a lot of situations in life in which you will gain by waiting, but you have to be patient. What do we know? What do people do in these kinds of situations? Well, by and large people are enormously impatient. That is, they require interest rates in the hundred
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The voice of the natural...
density and diversity from what we hear I'm able to arrive at much more precise Fitness outcomes and I want to show you some examples that typify the possibilities unlocked by diving into this universe this is Lincoln meadow Lincoln meadows a three and a half hour
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David Puttnam: What...
and their appeal to a largely disillusioned, older demographic, along with the apathy and obsession with the trivial that typifies at least some of the young, taken together, these and other similarly contemporary aberrations are threatening to squeeze the life
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People, Plants and...
that was also a great honor and here we are launching the stamps with one of the longest-serving members of nature Kenya flowing Gwen oh who has selflessly led the bird walks for over 40 years and typifies the kind of person that is part
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How to have a healthier,...
typically associated with water, purity, fertility, love and, most importantly, sensuality, represents a female-centered life-transforming energy that courses through and animates life. She says that women who typify the osun force
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Self Stabbing PIPE National...
local belief in spirits the spirit world infuses daily life auguste may have gotten his religious conviction from his father on ik on ik works carving the elaborate cremation towers that typify Balinese funerals but
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Bernie Krause: The voice...
both density and diversity from what we hear, I'm able to arrive at much more precise fitness outcomes. And I want to show you some examples that typify the possibilities unlocked by diving into this universe.
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Joseph Ravenell: How...
He was also orchestrating a voter registration drive to give a voice to his customers and his community. With this kind of activism, and community investment that typifies the black barbershop,
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What's the connection...
between sleep and Alzheimer's disease. Now, Alzheimer's disease is a form of dementia typified usually by memory loss and memory decline. And what we've started to understand
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Everything you think you...
You are angry a lot of the time, and I think one of the reasons why this debate is so charged is because it runs through the heart of each of us, right? Everyone has a bit of them that looks at an addict and thinks, I wish someone would just stop you. And the kind of scripts we're told for how to deal with the addicts in our lives is typified by, I think,
Video examples
Why we make bad...
This typifies a lot of situations in life in which you will gain by waiting, but you have to be patient. What do we know? What do people do in these kinds of situations? Well, by and large people are enormously impatient. That is, they require interest rates in the hundred
Video examples
The voice of the natural...
density and diversity from what we hear I'm able to arrive at much more precise Fitness outcomes and I want to show you some examples that typify the possibilities unlocked by diving into this universe this is Lincoln meadow Lincoln meadows a three and a half hour
Video examples
David Puttnam: What...
and their appeal to a largely disillusioned, older demographic, along with the apathy and obsession with the trivial that typifies at least some of the young, taken together, these and other similarly contemporary aberrations are threatening to squeeze the life
Video examples
People, Plants and...
that was also a great honor and here we are launching the stamps with one of the longest-serving members of nature Kenya flowing Gwen oh who has selflessly led the bird walks for over 40 years and typifies the kind of person that is part
Video examples
How to have a healthier,...
typically associated with water, purity, fertility, love and, most importantly, sensuality, represents a female-centered life-transforming energy that courses through and animates life. She says that women who typify the osun force
Video examples
Self Stabbing PIPE National...
local belief in spirits the spirit world infuses daily life auguste may have gotten his religious conviction from his father on ik on ik works carving the elaborate cremation towers that typify Balinese funerals but
Video examples
Bernie Krause: The voice...
both density and diversity from what we hear, I'm able to arrive at much more precise fitness outcomes. And I want to show you some examples that typify the possibilities unlocked by diving into this universe.
Video examples
Joseph Ravenell: How...
He was also orchestrating a voter registration drive to give a voice to his customers and his community. With this kind of activism, and community investment that typifies the black barbershop,
Video examples
What's the connection...
between sleep and Alzheimer's disease. Now, Alzheimer's disease is a form of dementia typified usually by memory loss and memory decline. And what we've started to understand
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Marti Noxon
American Writer
I did, of course, do research about what the current state of affairs is in terms of the eating disorder community and who's being affected, and I was surprised to see that - something that was - way back when I was in the thick of it, it was typified as a fairly white, middle-class girl problem. And if it was, it really isn't anymore.
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James Maddison
English Athlete
I'm always a player who has taken fairly rough treatment, to be honest. I think my time in Scotland typified that because I think there was one game where I set a record for being fouled ten or 11 times in a game.
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Michael Nesmith
American Musician
Linear thinking typifies a highly developed industry. It starts to get these patterns built into it somehow. I'm not sure how that happens, but certainly you take a look at dinosaurs.
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Ken Stott
Scottish Actor
Nobody's going to say hello to me in the street, really, because there'll be someone a bit more famous coming along the street in a minute. That typifies London, really.
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Krystal Ball
American Activist
If there is any state that typifies prototypical 'Murica' where the trucks and the guns are big and the social safety net is oh so small, it's Texas.
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Lisa Joy
American Director
Traditional westerns typify some of the hardships men face: you have to be rugged, silent, stoic. It's a man against nature, against the world.
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William Howard Taft
American President
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
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Mary Ritter Beard
American Historian
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.
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Jeff Baena
American Director
Zombies sort of typify this ambiguity, that they're not dead and not alive.
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Bill Pullman
American Actor
I've always wrestled against being typified in one way or another.
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Marti Noxon
American Writer
I did, of course, do research about what the current state of affairs is in terms of the eating disorder community and who's being affected, and I was surprised to see that - something that was - way back when I was in the thick of it, it was typified as a fairly white, middle-class girl problem. And if it was, it really isn't anymore.
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James Maddison
English Athlete
I'm always a player who has taken fairly rough treatment, to be honest. I think my time in Scotland typified that because I think there was one game where I set a record for being fouled ten or 11 times in a game.
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Michael Nesmith
American Musician
Linear thinking typifies a highly developed industry. It starts to get these patterns built into it somehow. I'm not sure how that happens, but certainly you take a look at dinosaurs.
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Ken Stott
Scottish Actor
Nobody's going to say hello to me in the street, really, because there'll be someone a bit more famous coming along the street in a minute. That typifies London, really.
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Krystal Ball
American Activist
If there is any state that typifies prototypical 'Murica' where the trucks and the guns are big and the social safety net is oh so small, it's Texas.
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Lisa Joy
American Director
Traditional westerns typify some of the hardships men face: you have to be rugged, silent, stoic. It's a man against nature, against the world.
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William Howard Taft
American President
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
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Mary Ritter Beard
American Historian
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.
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Jeff Baena
American Director
Zombies sort of typify this ambiguity, that they're not dead and not alive.
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Bill Pullman
American Actor
I've always wrestled against being typified in one way or another.
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