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Tyner Rushing

Tyner Rushing (born 1992) is an American actress from Semmes, Alabama, known for Emma Smith in Under the Banner of Heaven, Virginia Creel in Stranger Things, Liz Riley in The Terminal List and Dark Wolf, and Samantha Massey in For All Mankind.

Type A/B/C editions

Type A/B/C editions are a J-pop practice, pioneered by AKB48, of releasing one single in several same-day editions with different bonuses to drive bulk fan buying.

Type Dangerous

Type Dangerous is a 2025 Mariah Carey song, lead single from Here for It All, sampling Eric B. & Rakim's Eric B. Is President; her 50th Hot 100 entry and a 2025 MTV VMA Best R&B winner.

Type O Negative

Type O Negative: Brooklyn gothic/doom metal band formed 1990 from Carnivore's remnants by Peter Steele (died April 2010). Seven studio albums including Bloody Kisses (1993, first Roadrunner gold album) and October Rust (1996); live album due early 2027.

Typecasting

Typecasting: repeated casting of an actor in roles matching a fixed character type, also called playing against type when broken. Studied by Zuckerman et al. (AJS 2003) and Friedman & O'Brien (2017) as a labor-market mechanism.

Typee

Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life is Herman Melville's first book (1846), a travel narrative based on his 1842 desertion from the Acushnet and weeks living among the Taipi on Nuku Hiva, Marquesas; controversial, revised, and his most popular lifetime work.

Typeface

Typeface: the shared design of a set of letterforms, distinct from a font, the file or metal that renders it. Covers font-versus-typeface terminology, history from Gutenberg, serif legibility research, and OpenType variable fonts (2016).

Types of cheese

Types of cheese: hundreds of varieties grouped into roughly 12 coagulation-based families and commercial categories such as soft-ripened, blue-veined, pasta filata, and Cheddar, distinguished by milk type, moisture, ripening microbes, and protected origins.

Types of chocolate

Types of chocolate: dark, milk, white, and ruby (Barry Callebaut, 2017), plus couverture and compound. Defined by cocoa liquor, cocoa butter, sugar, and milk solids proportions, FDA standards of identity, and processing like conching, alkalization, and tempering.

Types of restaurant

Types of restaurant: classification of food-service establishments by service model (full service, fast casual, quick service), price, format (fine dining, café, food truck, ghost kitchen), and ownership, with US industry figures.

Typewriter (2019 TV series)

Typewriter (टाइपराइटर) is a 2019 Hindi-language Netflix horror series of five episodes created, directed, and co-written by Sujoy Ghosh, set in Goa around Bardez Villa, a self-writing Remington typewriter, and a children's ghost club.

Typhoon Club (台風クラブ)

Typhoon Club (台風クラブ) is a 1985 Japanese youth drama by Shinji Sōmai: junior high students trapped in a Shinshu school during a typhoon. Tokyo IFF Young Cinema Grand Prize; Kinema Junpo All-Time Best 100 No. 55.

Typhoon Family (태풍상사)

Typhoon Family (태풍상사, Typhoon Trading Company) is a 2025 tvN/Netflix Korean drama, 16 episodes, Oct 11–Nov 30, starring Lee Jun-ho and Kim Min-ha, set in the 1997 IMF crisis; finale hit 10.3% Nielsen.

Typical of Me

Typical of Me is the debut EP by Icelandic singer-songwriter Laufey, released on 30 April 2021, blending jazz with contemporary pop and featuring the Icelandic radio hit "Street by Street".

Typography

Typography: design and arrangement of written text for reading, in print and on screens; also called type design. Spans Sumerian cuneiform, Gutenberg's movable type, and digital variable fonts, with legibility, readability, and WCAG accessibility criteria.

Typography of Apple Inc.

Typography of Apple Inc.: the company's typefaces, from Susan Kare's 1984 Macintosh city fonts (Chicago) through Apple Garamond and Myriad to the San Francisco system font family (SF Pro, SF Compact, SF Mono, New York, SF Arabic and other script extensions) introduced in 2015, with its restrictive developer licensing.

Tyr (album)

Tyr (TYR) is Black Sabbath's 1990 studio album, third with singer Tony Martin and first with bassist Neil Murray, produced by Tony Iommi and Cozy Powell with Norse-mythology-themed titles; reissued in the 2024 Anno Domini box set.

Týr (group)

Týr is a Faroese viking and folk metal band formed in Copenhagen in 1998 by Heri Joensen, known for setting Norse mythology and Faroese lore to traditional ballad melodies.

Tyra Banks

Tyra Banks (Tyra Lynne Banks, BanX), American supermodel and media entrepreneur: first Black Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover model, Victoria's Secret Angel, creator-host of America's Next Top Model, Tyra Banks Co. CEO.

Tyra Ferrell

Tyra Ferrell (born 1962, Houston) is an American actress known for Mrs. Baker in Boyz N the Hood (1991), Orin Goode in Jungle Fever, Rhonda Deane in White Men Can't Jump, and Jessie in Poetic Justice, plus TV roles on ER, The Corner, and Empire.

Tyra Sanchez

Tyra Sanchez is the former stage name of James William Ross IV (born 1988), American drag performer and Beyoncé impersonator who won RuPaul's Drag Race season 2 in 2010, later retired, returned as King Tyra, and now performs as Tyra.

Tyrannosaur (film)

Tyrannosaur (2011) is Paddy Considine's feature directorial debut, a British drama starring Peter Mullan and Olivia Colman, expanded from his short Dog Altogether; it won Sundance and BAFTA honors and Best British Independent Film.

Tyranny and Mutation

Tyranny and Mutation (stylized TYRANNY AND MVTATION) is Blue Öyster Cult's second studio album, released February 1973 on Columbia Records (KC 32017). Eight tracks, about 38 minutes, produced by Sandy Pearlman and Murray Krugman, sides labeled The Red and The Black.

Tyrant (Beyoncé song)

TYRANT is a 2024 Beyoncé song featuring Dolly Parton from Cowboy Carter, a violin-heavy country-trap track produced by d.a. got that dope that peaked at number 44 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Tyrant (film)

Tyrant is an upcoming American thriller film directed by David Weil, set in New York City's elite fine dining scene, produced by Amazon MGM, The Picture Company, and Secret Menu, starring Charlize Theron, Julia Garner, and Demi Moore, distinct from the 2024 Korean series The Tyrant.

Tyrant (TV series)

Tyrant is an American drama series that aired on FX from 2014 to 2016, about the son of a Middle Eastern dictator returning to his fictional homeland.

Tyreese

Tyreese Williams is a The Walking Dead character from Robert Kirkman's comics and the AMC series, played by Chad L. Coleman. Comic Tyreese is Rick's second leader, decapitated by the Governor; the TV Tyreese, brother of Sasha, dies from a walker bite in season 5.

Tyrel Jackson Williams

Tyrel Jackson Williams (born 1997) is an American actor from Westchester County, New York, known for Leo Dooley on Disney XD's Lab Rats, Charles on IFC's Brockmire, and Sackson in Party Down's 2023 revival.

Tyrese Gibson

Tyrese Gibson (born 1978, Watts, Los Angeles), mononymously Tyrese, American R&B singer and actor; platinum 1998 debut, "Sweet Lady," Roman Pearce in Fast and Furious, Robert Epps in Transformers, TGT member.

Tyrian purple (πορφύρα)

Tyrian purple (πορφύρα), also royal or imperial purple, is an ancient reddish-purple vat dye of 6,6′-dibromoindigo from murex snail hypobranchial glands; 12,000 snails yielded 1.4 g, and Diocletian's AD 301 edict priced purple silk at 150,000 denarii per pound.