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bullfighter

[bool-fahy-ter] / ˈbʊlˌfaɪ tər /


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Jake sends Brett off with the bullfighter Romero.

From Salon Nov. 8, 2025

A new documentary follows a boy living in a small town in Spain, whose family expects him to become a professional bullfighter.

From BBC Jun. 15, 2024

His father opened El Califa de León in 1956, naming it for a well-known bullfighter who happened to be a friend.

From Los Angeles Times May 23, 2024

Among them was a person with particular expertise in wrangling loose animals: David Danton, of Mount Vernon, Wash., who worked for nearly 15 years as a rodeo clown and rodeo bullfighter.

From New York Times Apr. 29, 2024

He told me his bullfighter name was Manolito.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

Among his favourites were the works John Buchan and H Rider Haggard, but Forsyth adored Ernest Hemingway's book on bullfighters, Death in the Afternoon.

From BBC Jun. 9, 2025

Botero early in his career seized on sharp visual contrasts: Tiny snakes, parrots, flies and bananas adorn his portraits of blimpy bullfighters, bishops, prostitutes, acrobats, ballroom dancers and politicians.

From Seattle Times Sep. 22, 2023

A crowd has gathered to cheer the bullfighters, but when a particularly famous one passes by, a man heckles him, barking that he’s nothing compared with the matadors that the city of Córdoba has produced.

From New York Times May 3, 2022

The bullfighters have created their own: #ProhibitTheProhibition, which they emblazoned on posters during Sunday’s corrida.

From Washington Post Dec. 14, 2021

They were Hemingway’s bullfighters, living “all the way up.”

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand



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