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Recent Examples of hypermasculine
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.
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Ashleigh N. Deluca, Parents, 4 Sep. 2025
And Hank’s own clumsy attempts at hypermasculine child-rearing often come from his father, Cotton (Toby Huss).
—Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 7 July 2025
Trump has successfully revived being anti-woke and boastfully hypermasculine in the comedy world — a mere reflection of what his politics are all about.
—Allison Jiang, The Hill, 10 June 2025
When The Sopranos debuted in 1999, the series moved the cultural needle in innumerable ways — not least with its depiction of a hypermasculine man in a therapist’s office.
—Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 5 June 2025
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Ashleigh N. Deluca, Parents, 4 Sep. 2025
And Hank’s own clumsy attempts at hypermasculine child-rearing often come from his father, Cotton (Toby Huss).
—Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 7 July 2025
Trump has successfully revived being anti-woke and boastfully hypermasculine in the comedy world — a mere reflection of what his politics are all about.
—Allison Jiang, The Hill, 10 June 2025
When The Sopranos debuted in 1999, the series moved the cultural needle in innumerable ways — not least with its depiction of a hypermasculine man in a therapist’s office.
—Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 5 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hypermasculine
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There's macho panache and white-knuckle action sequences aplenty as Pitt's eccentric Formula 1 veteran plays reluctant mentor to a hotshot rookie (Damson Idris).—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
23 Dec. 2025
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The onetime wannabe Broadway producer brought his particular style of late 20th century over-the-top macho taste to political events, elevating professional wrestling to the Republican National Convention and inviting the 1980s icons Sylvester Stallone and Mike Tyson to the White House.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
24 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Brands like War Paint and Stryx argue that men need products designed for their thicker, oilier skin, and packaged in masculine, tool-like containers that feel at home in a gym bag.—
Luke Fountain,
CNBC,
10 Jan. 2026
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The suit – sharp, oversized, unapologetically masculine – changed all that.—
Marianna Cerini,
CNN Money,
10 Jan. 2026
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Fifty-seven of the 70 homicide victims were male, while 12 were female.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
15 Jan. 2026
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The former One Direction member and actor, arguably the biggest male name in pop music today, has just confirmed that his fourth solo album is coming soon.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
15 Jan. 2026
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There are those drunken, manly ones who want to get it.—
David Searcy,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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Being a Harvard grad, he’s never been mistaken for a particularly manly man.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
17 Dec. 2025
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And if the ecological action epic of 2022’s Avatar: The Way of Water allowed the flower child side to dominate the auteur’s inner grunt, now the macho warrior re-emerges, hungry and determined and surprisingly virile.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
16 Dec. 2025
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Rather than prizing animals for their beauty, their virile traits or their straight-up cool characteristics, frogposting is all about vulnerable animals—the dweebs of the animal kingdom.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
3 Dec. 2025
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“Hypermasculine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypermasculine. Accessed 21 Jan. 2026.
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