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
We meet Iñaki, the manager here who is appropriately more matador than barkeep.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
Beetlejuice dabbles in other goofy alternatives such as a matador outfit and an afterlife customs-officer uniform.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
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
The two matadors had already faced off twice in the preceding weeks, and each time Manolete found himself at odds with the public, as the crowds thronged behind Dominguín instead.
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
There are many matadors, picadors, minotaurs, bulls and horses in a new show exploring Picasso and the importance of bullfighting – but also a glimpse of his terrible treatment of women.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 26, 2017
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
Marcial straightened up and dropped his cigarette, and, looking straight ahead, their heads back, their free arms swinging, the three matadors walked out.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
