bullfighter
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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
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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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