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Noun
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My work offers a counterpoint to the isolation and performance that often shape contemporary masculinity.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
18 Oct. 2025 -
But with the second trilogy, The Book of Dust, we are introduced to Malcolm Polstead who challenges toxic masculinity in many of the same ways as Will.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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His boot camp experience serves as a coming-of-age journey for the character as his perspective on manhood changes.—
Dory Jackson,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
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Moura suggests that Filho’s also exploring manhood, not so much in the macho sense, but in its connection to values.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Studying Latin taught me that contemporary anxieties about manliness and cosmopolitanism date back thousands of years.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
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But just like the men who understood changing a diaper in the 1990s didn't take away their manliness, so can participating in their spouse's emotional needs.—
Laura Trujillo,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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For someone like Eli, then, projecting movie-star-like virility and vigor was an exercise in social advancement, in distancing himself from his babushka forebears’ grim reality.—
David Kamp,
New Yorker,
4 Oct. 2025
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Beards were not signs of virility but of disorder.—
Maurizio Valsania,
The Conversation,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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While there are a few male employees at Olta, most everything — from tending the crops to distilling the liquid to bottling it up — is done by women, a rarity in the machismo world of Mexican spirits.—
Allyson Reedy,
Denver Post,
24 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement Gudsen's fractured identity—swaggering machismo versus devoted family man—might suggest dissociative identity disorder, but Lehane resists reducing him to a clinical label.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Maleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maleness. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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