: a traditional or conventional literary or rhetorical theme or topic
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Grothendieck continued to come up with even more abstract and powerful concepts, including topoi, stacks, motives, and étale cohomology.—Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2026 The idea refers to non-normative spaces in which a juxtaposition of scenes and stories allows the joining-together of divergent temporalities and locations in a way that defies patriarchal and authoritarian regulations of social and political topoi.—Javier Montes, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
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Etymology
Greek, short for koinos topos, literally, common place