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brawn

[brawn] / brɔn /


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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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