chauvinist
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Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike star in a Netflix comedy about a corporate chauvinist who finds himself in a parallel universe—one in which the women are in charge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
On 20 September 1973, an estimated 90 million people around the world watched Billie Jean King beat self-proclaimed chauvinist Bobby Riggs in a best-of-five match at the Houston Astrodome.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025
But, more importantly, they are subversive — a powerful statement of noncompliance to chauvinist systems of control.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
Moayed recalled saying that he didn’t want to play Torvald as a “chest-out” chauvinist, someone who would physically threaten his wife.
From New York Times ● May 23, 2023
But this last alternative seems to me to be special pleading: I am, reluctantly, a self-confessed carbon chauvinist.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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They did this as a way to gain status from the dominant group and overcome oppression by acting like male chauvinists.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2024
Her delightful novel “Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead” is about an astrology-obsessed woman who rails against the local hunters, policemen and other chauvinists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2022
It is perhaps worth mentioning here that, for Manhattan club chauvinists of the late ’70s, Brooklyn was less “downtown” than a world apart.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2021
Ventimiglia has made a career out of playing chauvinists as romantics, the type of guy who loves you so much he has to boss you around.
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2016
Even the base insinuations of the Anglo-French chauvinists to the secret compact between the Soviet Government and the Germans, might in case that treaty had been signed find credence in certain circles of European laborers.
From From October to Brest-Litovsk by Leon Davidovich Trotzky
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