virility
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Our hypermasculine era has already championed testosterone as a buzzword—an elixir that confers virility, confidence and power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Still, experts say the Grinch’s 2025 glow-up likely owes as much to holiday exhaustion and broad consumer pessimism as it does vertical video virility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2025
Chakwera and Biya used very different approaches to tackle the rumours about illnesses, but they had a similar intent - to project, and protect, an image of strength and virility.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2024
Youth and virility are big parts of masculinity.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2024
He, after all, had no standards of manliness, of virility, to complicate his pride.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
But, within weeks, he was at work on a chipper mural for the men’s lounge at Radio City Music Hall: orchestrated virilities of smoking, card playing, motoring, horse racing, sailing, and a barber pole.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 13, 2016
And so, toward the end of his year, he was physically not far from where he had been on coming to Deutschland for the sake of its inspiring virilities.
From Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life by Stuart Oliver Henry
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The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
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