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Six example sentences with archetype, each labelled with its topic.
Every buddy comedy since that 1987 film has borrowed its mismatched-partner archetype, right down to the shared apartment gag.
Movies
The Bauhaus workshop building became an archetype that studios across three continents copied brick by brick for decades.
Architecture
Homer's wandering sailor is the archetype from which countless later voyage novels were built, borrowing his cunning and his homesickness.
Literature
The 1984 Macintosh became the archetype for personal computers, and its desktop metaphor was copied for the next thirty years.
Technology
That 1993 shooter is the archetype for the whole genre, and its map layouts still show up in new releases.
Gaming
The two-founders-in-a-garage tale is the archetype every pitch deck imitates, whether or not the garage ever existed.
Startups
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