brute force
Example Sentences
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This strategy depends on intelligence rather than brute force.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
South Africa have long relied on fast bowlers of rare quality, but this attack has evolved beyond brute force.
From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025
And by the sheer brute force of its size, bond markets force both the subjects of its wrath, and the investors that rely on them, into submission.
From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025
In high school, Raymond could afford to get by with brute force.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2025
The resort to weapons such as insecticides to control it is a proof of insufficient knowledge and of an incapacity so to guide the processes of nature that brute force becomes unnecessary.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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