How to Use hypermasculine in a Sentence
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Ving Rhames), his mother’s new lover, an ex-con whose hypermasculine image was missing from Jody’s life.
—Armond White, National Review, 7 July 2021
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Some are able to resist the hypermasculine culture that gives them and their colleagues permission to cuss out and beat up people like the five officers did Nichols.
—Shaun Harper, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
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But in many ways he was imprisoned by this macho persona — a hypermasculine persona that, at the time, was seen as a positive thing.
—NBC News, 4 Apr. 2021
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Lots of users want to connect with someone whose avatar is a doe-eyed woman in micro-jorts — or perhaps a hypermasculine beefcake with mandibles that splay out and away from his mouth like bat wings.
—New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
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For a lot of brands, big block letters, intense logos, fiery explosions and hypermasculine marketing schemes are the only way to get their products to the market.
—Dallas News, 15 Feb. 2022
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Mitchell has a basic mastery of the hypermasculine tropes of comic book culture and professional sports.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2022
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The raw meat diet may continue to be demystified in further research, and the lifestyle might lose some of its onerous, hypermasculine baggage.
—Luke Winkie, Bon Appétit, 31 Aug. 2022
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In her year and a half living as Ned, Ms. Vincent put him in a number of stereotypical, hypermasculine situations.
—New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
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Among them were a handful of men like Mr. Fisher, whose large online footprint suggests a fierce devotion to a hypermasculine ethos of chauvinism, grievance and misogyny.
—Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2021
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These dads are hypermasculine and capable not only of extreme violence, but also of protecting and providing for their young charges.
—Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
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As cars evolved from status symbol to essential tool for everyday life, their marketing broadened, though the hypermasculine emphasis of the early mythology never abated.
—Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2021
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Current and former students say that campuses are often hypermasculine, with female students facing overt harassment and abuse.
—Akanksha Singh, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
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But behind his on-field accolades, Hernandez was a chronic marijuana smoker and risk taker, with a propensity for guns and violence, who struggled with his sexuality in the hypermasculine world of big time football.
—Andrew Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2023
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But these perceptions are driven less by scientific evidence and more by hypermasculine culture.
—David Oliver, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
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In a break from earlier obsessions with hypermasculine stars, young people have gravitated in recent years to male celebrities who have adopted feminine or submissive aesthetics.
—Jane Li, Quartz, 1 Sep. 2021
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Macedonia was a violent, unstable, hypermasculine society surrounded by enemies.
—Myrto Papadopoulos, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2020
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