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[bur-lee] / ˈbɜr li /


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Hell belongs to the powerhouses; the burly classics riders who cannot go over mountains day after day, but who can go for longer and harder across one epic day of racing.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

He is tatted, burly, and often dressed in black, with just enough gray in his beard to scan as learned.

From Slate • Feb. 15, 2026

"We need the Americans' support," said Fritz, a burly, bearded man with the flag of Alberta -- western Canada's oil-rich province -- draped around his shoulders.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

If he had little use for Rudolph’s burly Brutalism, he took his inspiration from “The Shingle Style,” Scully’s pioneering study of those late 19th-century American houses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

One, a thick, burly monster of a tree with warts, came down with a high, thin wail that sounded exactly like a baby crying.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli




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