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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
  • And while Sturm offers a small group of men’s options (the Face Cream Men doubles as an after-shave soother), some of her male clientele seem content to buy the primary unisex line.
    Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2025
  • But, in 1944, when the field of medical ethics was still developing, Ancel Keys, a physiologist at the University of Minnesota, recruited thirty-six male conscientious objectors to voluntarily starve themselves.
    Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The conservative desire to return to an earlier heyday—one that is rustic, masculine, and rugged, rather than soft, feminine, and urban—is ancient.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Loafers, softer and quite cozy or completely masculine.
    Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Virile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/virile. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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