matador
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And who would have guessed that a grail of It-ness would be part of the show, nestled next to the matador jacket worn by Rudolph Valentino in 1922’s “Blood and Sand.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
The author’s there, the affable Fernando González Viñas, flanked by a matador and his entourage.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
This relentless bull market may finally have found its matador.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
Beetlejuice dabbles in other goofy alternatives such as a matador outfit and an afterlife customs-officer uniform.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
He did not look like a matador, though.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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The one corrida Manolete went to as a child didn’t excite him in the least, and when kids at school pretended to be bulls and matadors, play-fighting with one another, Manolete kept to himself.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
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
That didn’t seem to matter for her fans, the ones who grew up on her ’80s and ’90s hits, the ones dressed as bulls and matadors or “Like a Virgins” and “Material Girls.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2015
Elsewhere in the Great Hall at London's iconic Alexandra Palace, a motley crew of skeletons, nuns, Elvis Presleys, matadors, and rather disheveled Santas, were partying hard -- all in the name of darts.
From Reuters ● Dec. 25, 2014
I looked through the glasses and saw the three matadors.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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