matador
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His name is Mikel Merino, and he’s fast turning into Spain’s World Cup matador.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
This relentless bull market may finally have found its matador.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
Their enthralling matador and bull program set to “Paint it Black” eclipsed the season’s best they earned two days prior during the team event, but it wasn’t enough to earn elusive individual Olympic gold.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
We meet Iñaki, the manager here who is appropriately more matador than barkeep.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
Henry throws the car in reverse and begins to back up, like a bull before charging a matador.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
When the parade of the afternoon’s three matadors and their bullfighting entourage finally emerged to salute the fans, the arena in Mexico City erupted.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
On its face, “Sterling Karat Gold” is the story of Sterling, a nonbinary performance artist who is assaulted by matadors on the streets of London and then accosted by a time traveler from the future.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2023
Wearing mandatory face masks and sitting in fumigated seats separated by stickers, fans watched matadors take on seven bulls in a charity contest to raise money for jobless bullfighters and other workers in the sector.
From Reuters ● May 2, 2021
Wagon-wheel chandelier, cereal boxes, dirty dishes, green shag carpet, orange vinyl couch patched with duct tape, two sad-looking boys dressed as matadors staring from a painting on the wall.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2018
The matadors bowed, holding their hats on, before the President's box, and then came over to the barrera below us.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
