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dumbbell

[duhm-bel] / ˈdʌmˌbɛl /


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Dumbbell workouts: Dumbbell exercises build muscle strength and can also help improve balance and bone density.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2021

Now what’s in the works for the Bridgehead instead is a set of oddball housing and office spaces, including a pair of buildings covered in wallpaper designs and known as The Fair-Haired Dumbbell.

From Slate • Oct. 15, 2014

Miss Talmadge's first venture as an artist�a pen-and-ink artist�will be a series of cartoons entitled Dulcy, The Delightful Dumbbell.

From Time Magazine Archive

Samuelson also called the big deficits of the past few years "responsible," moving the New York Daily News, which takes a Middle-American view of economics, to nominate him for "this year's Dumbbell Award."

From Time Magazine Archive

His other large picture, "Interior of a Dumbbell by Night," has the same basic idea without the appearance of it, and gives a very vital sense of the elimination of noumenal perceptivity.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 5, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir




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