Example Sentences

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“It’s basically about the masculinization of men, instead of the emasculation of men,” Mr. Sorbo told The Times.

From Washington Times • Dec. 14, 2023

That means there’s still time to save the Office of Congressional Ethics from emasculation.

From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2023

After being brought low, Affleck’s persona has been infused with a humanizing appeal, as the sad Ben Affleck figure conveys a universal angst spiked with a strangely appealing emasculation.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2022

When McCarthyism faded, its troubling undercurrents of emasculation and homophobia found a foothold in science fiction and its pseudoscientific love child, UFOs.

From Slate • Feb. 12, 2021

Far from leading to "the benefit and welfare of all," this "unfailing" wisdom is leading to the ... most miserable slavery of souls, the emasculation of minds, the creation of a terrible heresy.

From H. P. Blavatsky A Great Betrayal by Cleather, Alice Leighton