brawny
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“It’s a big, brawny truck. It’s a brute.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Compared to the world-class athletes and physical specimens who catch footballs for a living, the Seattle wideout isn’t especially brawny, tall, or speedy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 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
He’s also played by Cena, a retiring professional wrestler who embodies the white American male ideal – brawny, handsome, a good guy.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2025
He leaped up from the floor and scrambled out the door, where the guard clamped a brawny hand on his arm and led him off.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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
This body type even pressed its way into our children’s bedrooms: studies show that action figures have become brawnier over the past 25 years.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2019
Yes, Jones told the brawnier Thome, he was done.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2018
A graduate of American University, Cohn is a little bit like the less-charismatic, brawnier younger brother to Blankfein.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2016
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
Through the Depression and the war years, the pages of Esquire were the place to be for the brightest and brawniest of American writers.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2017
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
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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