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Recent Examples of virile The Victorians, perhaps sensing that Britain’s empire could not stay young and virile forever, took this Romantic dread and ran with it. Matthew Redmond, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025 New cassette players are being manufactured and competition is virile, musicians are releasing more and more records on the format and Amazon is selling old cassettes like a bumper crop. Spin Team, SPIN, 28 Nov. 2024 While a tabloid scandal and a terrorist plot don’t seem like fuel for a winning Oscar campaign, all of it contributed to Crowe’s image as a throwback to the days when Hollywood leading men were virile and larger than life. Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2024 And John himself is a strong, virile man willing to take control of any situation. William Earl, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for virile
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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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“Virile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/virile. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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