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Recent Examples of maleness
The men handling their maleness was interesting.
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Fact is Bruce Springsteen has forever been a man of the people, a man in search of his own definition of his maleness and his humanity.
—Kevin Powell, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Becoming Lazarus particularly allowed Claflin to explore maleness.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Fact is Bruce Springsteen has forever been a man of the people, a man in search of his own definition of his maleness and his humanity.
—Kevin Powell, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Becoming Lazarus particularly allowed Claflin to explore maleness.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maleness
Noun
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As Richard Reeves and other scholars of modern masculinity have made clear, men are not doing well.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
2 Apr. 2026
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Writer-director Walter Thompson-Hernández sets this mesmerizing, lyrical portrait of masculinity and tenderness against the backdrop of a busy LAX flight path.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
31 Mar. 2026
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These pivotal memories of Clark and Floyd’s buddy romance amount to another darkly comic portrait of a nontoxic male friendship — complete with nontraditional definitions of manhood that place meaningful friendships over monolithic strength — all built on a foundation of lies and insecurities.—
Andy Andersen,
Vulture,
23 Mar. 2026
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Playing boxer Jake LaMotta, Robert De Niro gave all of his mind and body to this portrait of a man destroyed by his anger, his jealousies, his pride, his retrograde notions of manhood.—
Devan Coggan,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The fashion for bushy beards, and beards’ association with authentic manliness, has followed this same trajectory from irony to earnestness during its various resurgences since the early 19th century.—
Daniel Engber,
The Atlantic,
20 Feb. 2026
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Suck it up, and embrace the steely, Vader-esque manliness of this Ultra-Tough cooler from RTIC.—
Matthew Korfhage,
Wired News,
10 Dec. 2025
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Peptides marketed for growth, virility and other effects are hormone mimickers, trying to do the job the body's natural hormones already perform.—
Nicole Villalpando,
Austin American Statesman,
14 Mar. 2026
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And the working women clearly recognize the virility of him.—
Danielle Parker,
CBS News,
27 Feb. 2026
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Yet maybe, as the cartoonish machismo of Trumpism proves its hollowness, America’s latent resentment can be channeled to better ends.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
27 Mar. 2026
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Co-directors Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig mix cinema vérité, Super 8 footage, and stylized scenes into a cocktail where machismo and queerness come together.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Mar. 2026
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“Maleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maleness. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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