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muscle

[muhs-uhl] / ˈmʌs əl /
NOUN
large fibers of animal body
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Muscle weakness is one of the earliest warning signs of osteoarthritis, and resistance training can help reverse it.

From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2026

His direct, unadorned vocals on 1961’s “You Better Move On” started an explosion of gospel-inflected Muscle Shoals pop, from Jimmy Hughes’s “Steal Away” to his cousin Percy Sledge’s “When a Man Loves a Woman.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025

Muscle fibers guide physical force, intestinal fibers support the motion of the digestive tract, and brain fibers carry electrical signals that allow different regions to exchange information.

From Science Daily • Dec. 9, 2025

Musically, the band is everywhere on this track; it’s Memphis again, it’s Muscle Shoals; the guitars shimmer, full of resonance.

From Salon • Sep. 2, 2025

He was seven feet tall, easy, his arms and legs like something from the cover of Muscle Man magazine—bulging biceps and triceps and a bunch of other ’ceps, all stuffed like baseballs under vein-webbed skin.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan




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