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typify

verb

typ·​i·​fy ˈti-pə-ˌfī How to pronounce typify (audio)
typified; typifying

transitive verb

1
: to represent in typical fashion : to constitute a typical mark or instance of
realism … that typified his earlier work Current Biography
2
: to embody the essential or salient characteristics of : be the type of
typification noun

Example Sentences

His heroic actions typified the courage of all the firefighters at the scene. The decor typifies the elegance of royal residences. He typifies what a professional athlete should be. Gothic architecture is typified by soaring rooflines and stained glass.
Recent Examples on the Web Emerging in the early 1970s with a string of hit singles, Newton-John came to typify the decade's anything-goes fashion. Oscar Holland, CNN, 9 Aug. 2022 Frank’s worldview doesn’t arrive in the split-second vignettes that typify the current generation, but in layered and subtle textures that, a decade on, lend themselves to new prisms of understanding. Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 10 July 2022 The researchers tried two on some commercial-scale production equipment, starting with low-quality materials that typify the waste streams of other chemical reactions. John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 May 2022 Few couples typify this dynamic as acutely as the fictive Mia and Marcus of Love Life season 2, played by Williams and the charmingly neurotic William Jackson Harper. Shamira Ibrahim, Essence, 6 Apr. 2022 Négresse and three other female figures—meant to typify the American, Asian and European continents—would decorate the fountain in a celebration of French imperialism, as Walters tells Kaitlyn Greenidge of Harper’s Bazaar. Nora Mcgreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2022 In many subsequent movies, at M-G-M and elsewhere, his character was named Elmer (and once even Elmer Gantry), to typify him as a backwoods yokel. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022 Embellishments, exaggerations, and outright lies typify the worst of Silicon Valley’s hustle culture. Declan Harty, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2021 And the best of them, of course, both typify and transcend those eras. Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Sep. 2021 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1622, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of typify was in 1622

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