macho

In short, he was the kind of macho figure his KGB employers favored.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

The Platner disaster shows the danger in that thinking—and the perils of the macho attitude behind it.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

But instead of taking the seasoned actor’s approach to directing, which often translates to schmaltzy, overly macho films that couldn’t bear their heart to save their lives, Travolta opts for total sincerity.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

In Venezuela composer Antonio Estévez’s “Cantata Criolla,” a song contest between a macho Venezuelan troubadour and the devil leads to the spiritual ecstasy of exorcism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

Dede had looked at her husband, a long look as if she could draw the young man of her dreams out from the bossy, old-fashioned macho he’d become.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

The Women for Change organization joined in: “It is not that everything now looks to women like harassment, it is that to machos like you it has never seemed bad to harass!” the group tweeted.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 3, 2020

This sentiment was reinforced by mid-century machos such as Ernest Hemingway, John Wayne, and John Ford.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 4, 2018

For a finale, he staged a protest — models marching out, fists in the air, with picket signs that said, "Be Your Own Stylist," "Tweed is Better than Tweet" and "We can match the machos."

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2014

Astronomers have found the first direct evidence of machos, or massive compact halo objects.

From Time Magazine Archive

This was the Riscos de Valderejo, and on its heights there roamed, we were told, a good band of ibex, including some machos of the first rank.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Walter J. Buck