brawn
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Although summer is celebrated as a lazy idyll, it also summons an impulse toward tests of brain and brawn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
The bottleneck to robot growth might not be the brains but the brawn.
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
Seniors Tommy Spalding, Vaughan Flahert and Carter Mirabal have brains, brawn and surfing skills to make it to MIT.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026
The way to make Superman cool again was to highlight his brawn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
Their strength would be an asset, Bolles knew, but rowing—he understood as well as anyone—was at least as much art as brawn, and a keen intelligence was just as important as brute strength.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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