brute
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However, the Springboks' brute strength in the close quarters meant they could collect points without needing to resort to such high-risk passages of play.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
He’s so isolated that his closest friend is a frenemy: Jon Bernthal’s Punisher, an equally lonely brute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
If you spot a guy swaggering like a brute from Eternia on the sidewalk, masked or not, he probably thinks he’s more awesome than everyone else does.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
In the secular realm, though, brute force measures to address the gap are getting attention.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
“Such a mean brute, such a stupid brute!”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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Except from behind the windshield, where he views the world as teeming with schemers and brutes, acting on all manner of Machiavellian impulses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2025
But it made a few of the par 4s, such as the 490-yard first and the 465-yard fifth, play like brutes.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
Those Black people who survived the living hell of the Middle Passage and then centuries of enslavement and brutalization were not an undifferentiated mass of brutes as conceptualized by the white popular imagination.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2023
His uncompromising hostility toward revolutionaries inspired Thomas Paine to remark in 1776, “Even brutes do not devour their young, nor savages make war upon their families.”
From National Geographic ● Jul. 3, 2023
Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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The newes of the taking of king Richard was anon bruted and blowne ouer all Germanie, wherevpon the emperour Henrie the sixt, the sonne of 1193.
From Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First by Raphael Holinshed
Certayne dayes after that the Lorde Antonio had bruted the maryage of his daughter, many Gentlemen were suters, so wel for the excellency of hir Beauty, as for hir great Rychesse and reuenue.
From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter
The like forged inuencion haue thei wrote, of the migh- The battaill of Troie .x. yeres for a herlotte. tie and terrible battaill bruted of Troie, for a beautifull har- lot susteined ten yeres.
From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Richard Rainolde
Such was the valiancie of King Richard shown in manfull constraining of the citie, that his praise was greatly bruted both amongst the Christians and also the Saracens.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
The radiant hands, the swift, delighted limbs Move as in pools of dream the dancer swims, Holding our bruted sense to fragrance bound.
From Nights in London by Thomas Burke
Stones of fancy shape, such as square, or cushion shape, have to be formed in part by hand rubbing or "bruting" as it is called.
From A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public by Frank Bertram Wade
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