macho
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But the billionaire Republican is also reveling in the macho side of an event that will see bare-knuckle fighters battle it out in a mesh-framed cage known as the "Octagon."
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
But instead of taking the seasoned actor’s approach to directing, which often translates to schmaltzy, overly macho films that couldn’t bear their heart to save their lives, Travolta opts for total sincerity.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026
Novelist Dame Jilly Cooper scolded the team behind Rivals and told them to stop making her "macho men" cry on screen, an executive producer on the show has said.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
Inherently compelling but also a shade predictable, the genre promises a tantalizing glimpse at a terrifyingly macho world — one that most of us are fortunate not to know firsthand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 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
The mountainous southeastern state of Minas Gerais is commonly known as the terra dos machoes, or land of the machos.
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 Buck, Walter J.
