Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pigeon-hole .
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Examples
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I was placed in the lowest class in first grade and it seemed as if the school had pigeon-holed me, banishing me to this class for eternity this is not an exaggerated feeling when you are in sixth grade.
Shira Hirschman Weiss: When It Comes To Education, Are We On The Right Track? Shira Hirschman Weiss 2011
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If you disagree with any policy of this Administration, you are instantaneously pigeon-holed into the category of status-quo clinger.
Rita M. Solnet: Casualties of the Aftermath -- The Children Rita M. Solnet 2010
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She's not easily pigeon-holed politically and this sometimes gives her a column a dose of suspense as to who is not living up to her demanding moral standards.
Eric Alterman: Think Again: Something Is Happening and You Don't Know What it is, Do You, Ms. Dowd? Eric Alterman 2011
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I was placed in the lowest class in first grade and it seemed as if the school had pigeon-holed me, banishing me to this class for eternity this is not an exaggerated feeling when you are in sixth grade.
Shira Hirschman Weiss: When It Comes To Education, Are We On The Right Track? Shira Hirschman Weiss 2011
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I notice I can listen entirely on the bass or entirely on the vocal or entirely on that snare drum or that vocal, and then I can withdraw my pigeon-holed vision and look at the whole spectrum of it.
Mike Ragogna: Maroon 5 with Travie McCoy on SNL, Plus Chatting with Vince Gill, Trombone Shorty and Paul Rogers Mike Ragogna 2011
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"We were getting pigeon-holed into doing one kind of cake, the crazy ones with lights and motors and stuff, which I love, they're great, but, we do a lot of wedding cakes and people just forgot that."
Regina Varolli: Duff Goldman: The Ace of Cakes On A Sugar High Regina Varolli 2011
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The real danger is that people can become pigeon-holed and assigned rolls based on such esoteric concepts as that of the unchangeable "g."
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Perhaps it's a good thing that you can't and won't be pigeon-holed!
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Republican Senator Charles Grassley was reported to have pigeon-holed the Occupy Des Moines activists as "A lot of unemployed young people looking for some dates."
Michael J. Hunt: In Des Moines, A Few Occupiers Stand With The Many Michael J. Hunt 2011
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I notice I can listen entirely on the bass or entirely on the vocal or entirely on that snare drum or that vocal, and then I can withdraw my pigeon-holed vision and look at the whole spectrum of it.
Mike Ragogna: Maroon 5 with Travie McCoy on SNL, Plus Chatting with Vince Gill, Trombone Shorty and Paul Rogers Mike Ragogna 2011
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