See pigeonhole on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2000, Eminem (lyrics and music), “The Way I Am”:",
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"ref": "2023 June 28, Nick Reilly, “Meet eee gee, the singer who refuses to put her music in one box”, in Rolling Stone UK:",
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"ref": "1910, Angus Hamilton, Herbert Henry Austin, Masatake Terauchi, Korea: Its History, Its People, and Its Commerce, page 294:",
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"ref": "1917, “The Looking Glass: Election laws in Southern California”, in The Crisis, number 11, page 29:",
"text": "[…] vociferously declared that they had the evidence. But no one prosecutes. No one swears out a warrant. The evidence is pigeonholed.",
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"ref": "2008, Edward Sidlow, Beth Henschen, America at Odds, page 251:",
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