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macho

[mah-choh] / ˈmɑ tʃoʊ /


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

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

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

In Venezuela composer Antonio Estévez’s “Cantata Criolla,” a song contest between a macho Venezuelan troubadour and the devil leads to the spiritual ecstasy of exorcism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 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

He was also, strange as it is to say, a refreshing sort of female presence in a place where macho was the rule.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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

They are more than that; they are 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 Walter J. Buck




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