macho

In Georgia Mr. Barnes is struck by the power of traditional gender roles, a pattern that seems to him common throughout the Caucasus, with the men prone to “a macho hotheadedness.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Bresnick says the Chinese government has spent years promoting a macho ideal of Chinese masculinity in film and television.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Both the Smiths and mariachi music can drive even the most macho Mexican man to tears with their poetic lyrics and layered instrumentals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The Platner disaster shows the danger in that thinking—and the perils of the macho attitude behind it.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

I work out, too, in my normal life and take a certain macho pride in the Vs of sweat that form on my T-shirt after ten minutes or more on the StairMaster.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

The Women for Change organization joined in: “It is not that everything now looks to women like harassment, it is that to machos like you it has never seemed bad to harass!” the group tweeted.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 3, 2020

This sentiment was reinforced by mid-century machos such as Ernest Hemingway, John Wayne, and John Ford.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 4, 2018

For a finale, he staged a protest — models marching out, fists in the air, with picket signs that said, "Be Your Own Stylist," "Tweed is Better than Tweet" and "We can match the machos."

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2014

Joe Namath huddled with an assortment of international machos, trying to give the impression that Brut deserved a seat in the United Nations.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Well, that is where I shot the first of the two big machos on Thursday—the other on these broken pinnacles lower down on the right."

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Walter J. Buck