macho
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In short, he was the kind of macho figure his KGB employers favored.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
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
Dede had looked at her husband, a long look as if she could draw the young man of her dreams out from the bossy, old-fashioned macho he’d become.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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 Walter J. Buck
