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Currents of fear and pain run beneath the hypermasculine bravado and gallows humor, often rising in the middle of the action.—
Pitchfork,
Pitchfork,
30 Sep. 2025 -
Signs Your Child May Be Influenced This hypermasculine ideal has seeped into our mainstream culture to the point that muscle building goals are common among boys.—
Ashleigh N. DeLuca,
Parents,
4 Sep. 2025
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Personal interactions have been characterized by uncomfortably long handshakes and macho knee-slapping.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
24 Sep. 2025
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Then Pol, Martí’s macho young teen son, turns up, who obviously won’t get on with Julia’s boy.—
Callum McLennan,
Variety,
23 Sep. 2025
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The 26-foot-tall bronze sculpture depicts a male figure that transforms into tree branches housing various bird species.—
Duante Beddingfield,
Freep.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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Amy McGrath, a former Marine fighter pilot and Democratic Senate candidate in Kentucky, posted a video on Facebook stating there is no male standard or female standard for roles, including flying a fighter jet or being an artillery officer.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
4 Oct. 2025
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Republicans responded by leaning into their ideal image as the masculine party, with appeal that cut across racial barriers.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Convincing him to take him along, Veneno is drawn into the hyper-masculine world of long-haul trucking across northern Mexico.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
2 Oct. 2025
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All research seems to indicate that this back-to-back joke from 1985 was the lodestar for the meme of a socially inept teen feigning virile worldliness with a gal in America's northern neighbor country.—
Jordan Hoffman Updated,
EW.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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During his campaign for reelection in 2024, Trump, who turns 79 in June, sold digital trading cards that featured virile depictions of himself as a cowboy, superhero and astronaut, among other images.—
Elizabeth Crisp,
The Hill,
24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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And that’s the end of the manly story.—
Hanif Abdurraqib,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
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Fall is the time for manly men doing manly things.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Hairy-chested.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hairy-chested. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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