brawny
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Roger Sweet, the toymaker who designed the brawny superhero He-Man, has died.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
“It’s a big, brawny truck. It’s a brute.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Key details: Consumer spending, the chief engine of the economy, grew at a brawny 3.5% rate in third quarter.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 23, 2025
Fortune does not favor the brawny, or people armed to the teeth, or one sex over another.
From Salon ● Nov. 12, 2025
Maybe it wasn’t the smartest thing to do, to hit a brawny soldier with an umbrella.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
The truth is, however, that the auto industry is addicted to sales of big, heavy gas-fueled SUVs and pickups, which are only becoming brawnier with every model year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2020
Its forthright cheerfulness comes as a challenge to those of us still hung up on the brawnier, more shocking image of modernity Manet forged two decades earlier with “Déjeuner” and “Olympia.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2019
Yes, Jones told the brawnier Thome, he was done.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2018
Clement, the brawnier and gigglier one, agrees: “Yeah, we love doing it, but we wouldn’t watch it.”
From The Guardian ● Jun. 18, 2018
I couldn’t help thinking that I never saw brawnier, wirier men than those young farmers who met Earl P— at his political meeting.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
What is thought to be the world's debut bodybuilding contest, in 1901, saw 60 competitors trying to prove to a group of three judges who had the brawniest muscles.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2021
There have been exceptions, but by reputation the West has traditionally elevated the game as a more aesthetically pleasing form of entertainment while the East has prided itself as survival of the brawniest.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2015
From the stage, his brawniest hooks become stadium-grade singalongs, while his ballads offer an intimacy that can make the nosebleeds feel close.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2015
Stagg proved a brilliant formulator of X’s and O’s who likewise knew how to pluck the brawniest and nimblest from local high schools.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2011
He was the largest and brawniest of the boys and seemed to be their leader.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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