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- noun Alternative spelling of
pigeonhole . - verb Alternative spelling of
pigeonhole .
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Examples
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So many people want to pigeon-hole you when you're breasts.
Robert J. Elisberg: Kim Kardashian's Breasts to Get Own Reality Show Robert J. Elisberg 2011
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So many people want to pigeon-hole you when you're breasts.
Robert J. Elisberg: Kim Kardashian's Breasts to Get Own Reality Show Robert J. Elisberg 2011
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Just like Cocteau, it is impossible to pigeon-hole Paul Miller as an artist.
Charles Fabius: Jean Cocteau Goes Multimedia at the Guggenheim Charles Fabius 2010
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The danger is that when we make these assumptions about people, about our children, we pigeon-hole them.
Maggie Lamond Simone: What Happens When You Assume Maggie Lamond Simone 2011
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Every school has an area of pigeon-hole cupboards where kids put their street shoes.
Education letters 2011
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One must be careful not to pigeon-hole Republicans no matter where they are from.
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I love the fierce, insanely exuberant arias and performances; I also love that Bartoli confounds so many critics (usually men), who are unable to pigeon-hole her.
Best of 2009: Album 2009
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Both were consistently tough to predict or pigeon-hole.
Lucas Kavner: Tracking Vaclav Havel: From Orwell To Vermont And Into Prague Lucas Kavner 2011
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I love the fierce, insanely exuberant arias and performances; I also love that Bartoli confounds so many critics (usually men), who are unable to pigeon-hole her.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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The danger is that when we make these assumptions about people, about our children, we pigeon-hole them.
Maggie Lamond Simone: What Happens When You Assume Maggie Lamond Simone 2011
oroboros commented on the word pigeon-hole
Now pigeonhole. "LONDON (Reuters) - About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary."
October 1, 2009