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Recent Examples of man-size Flaherty scrupulously captured animal, water, and flora phenomena (Moana wrestling with a man-size tortoise and his brother Pe’a climbing the daunting heights of an arching coconut tree). Armond White, National Review, 4 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for man-size
Adjective
  • News voices in the 1970's tended to be somber, accent-less, and almost exclusively male.
    Scott Simon, NPR, 6 Sep. 2025
  • When first responders arrived, the male witness took his dogs home and his wife went to alert Samadi’s husband at their home, the reports said.
    Pam DeFiglio, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • His womenswear collection, introduced in 1975, quickly became known for easy shapes and masculine cuts with feminine qualities.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Set on a white-run construction site in West Africa, the story follows an edgy foreman anxiously awaiting his bride, whose presence meets resistance from a cocksure engineer clinging to the hyper-masculine status quo.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Man-size.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/man-size. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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