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- n. alternative spelling of pigeonhole.
- v. alternative spelling of pigeonhole.
Examples
“Both were consistently tough to predict or pigeon-hole.”
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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.”
“One must be careful not to pigeon-hole Republicans no matter where they are from.”
“Just like Cocteau, it is impossible to pigeon-hole Paul Miller as an artist.”
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“Every school has an area of pigeon-hole cupboards where kids put their street shoes.”
“The danger is that when we make these assumptions about people, about our children, we pigeon-hole them.”
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“So many people want to pigeon-hole you when you're breasts.”
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“Perhaps Em and I had the same teacher pigeon-hole Hemingway!!”
“These would pigeon-hole reading instruction into a continuum of increasingly complex rules, while ignoring the thinking process necessary to advanced reading.”
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“There was no sounding such a spirit, no measuring, no determining of metes and bounds, nor neatly classifying in some pigeon-hole with others of similar type.”
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oroboros 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." Sep 30, 2009