I. noun
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Hence Buckshot LeFonque, a group devoted to the idea of making pigeonholes a thing of the past.
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She got up and crossed to a little antique rosewood desk with pigeonholes and tiny drawers along the top.
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Surely the people shoved in and out of these pigeonholes have not themselves changed so vastly and so often.
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The judicial difficulties that arise when fitting variation into pigeonholes are testimony to evolution.
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The male experience is seen as a universal experience, while the female experience is put in a different pigeonhole .
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There were empty arched pigeonholes at the back, fretted and carved, and two empty little drawers.
II. verb
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Most people don't think of him as a real actor. He is pigeonholed as an action movie star.
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When your band becomes successful, people immediately try to pigeonhole you, but we're into all kinds of music - dance, rock, jazz, blues.
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You shouldn't pigeonhole people according to your first impressions of them.
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Bird-watchers have an austere view of existence: that which can not be pigeonholed should be shot.
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It is difficult to decide whether Sun and Peng can be pigeonholed as belonging to a particular school, trend or coterie.
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Joe Kennedy, like Clinton, is not easily pigeonholed as liberal, very much like his anti-bigness, pro-empowerment father.
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The new president is not easily pigeonholed.