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pigeonhole

2 verb
     
pigeonhole2 [transitive]
to unfairly consider a person, activity etc as belonging to a particular type or group
pigeonhole somebody/something as something
Patsy was pigeonholed as a Country and Western singer, but that's too simple.
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