brute
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If you spot a guy swaggering like a brute from Eternia on the sidewalk, masked or not, he probably thinks he’s more awesome than everyone else does.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
In the secular realm, though, brute force measures to address the gap are getting attention.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
And to think he still operates with such brute force that he was shoving Rocket defenders all over the court.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Their brute force bludgeoned Scotland time and again.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
He is a hulking brute with a thick black beard.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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Except from behind the windshield, where he views the world as teeming with schemers and brutes, acting on all manner of Machiavellian impulses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2025
But it made a few of the par 4s, such as the 490-yard first and the 465-yard fifth, play like brutes.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
This all-star mercenary squadron composed of ’80s-to-aughts brutes is the cinematic equivalent to Slash’s Snakepit, a supergroup throwback to an era when men were meatheads and we in the audience merrily cheered them on.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
Those Black people who survived the living hell of the Middle Passage and then centuries of enslavement and brutalization were not an undifferentiated mass of brutes as conceptualized by the white popular imagination.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2023
He crept on his toes towards the ugly brutes.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
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The fame and glorie of Britaine. to see this noble Islande of Britain, whose fame for nobilitée was knowen and bruted, not onelie in Rome, but also in the vttermoste lādes.
From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Rainolde, Richard
Moreover ye see what opinion is like to be conceiued of you, when it shalbe bruted that for the Marquize feare, you haue maried the Mantuan Lord.
From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by Painter, William
Certayne dayes after that the Lorde Antonio had bruted the maryage of his daughter, many Gentlemen were suters, so wel for the excellency of hir Beauty, as for hir great Rychesse and reuenue.
From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by Painter, William
The almanakes had well observed it: it was generally bruted in the Estates, that the execution should be on Saint Thomas day.
From Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois by Boas, Frederick S.
The like forged inuencion haue thei wrote, of the migh- The battaill of Troie .x. yeres for a herlotte. tie and terrible battaill bruted of Troie, for a beautifull har- lot susteined ten yeres.
From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Rainolde, Richard
Stones of fancy shape, such as square, or cushion shape, have to be formed in part by hand rubbing or "bruting" as it is called.
From A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public by Wade, Frank Bertram
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