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In the same familiar role
Answer for the clue "In the same familiar role ", 8 letters:
typecast
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also type-cast , with reference to actors, 1937 (implied in typecasting ), from type (n.) in the "general character" sense (perhaps a deliberate pun on the verbal phrase in the printing sense "to found types in molds," attested from 1847). See type (n.) ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To cast an actor in the same kind of role repeatedly. 2 To identify someone as being of a specific type because of their appearance, colour, religion etc. 3 (context computing programming English) To cast (change of data type of a variable or object). ...
Usage examples of typecast.
Every technological innovation was bitterly resisted by Luddite printers and publishers: stereotyping, the iron press, the application of steam power, mechanical typecasting and typesetting, new methods of reproducing illustrations, cloth bindings, machine-made paper, ready-bound books, paperbacks, book clubs, and book tokens.
If central casting had sent him to an HD producer for the role of an over-bred, cretinous aristocrat, the producer would have sent him back with a blistering memo about stereotypes and typecasting.