physique
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Student Will Seward, 19, started going to the gym when he was at secondary school because he wanted to "get stronger and build up his physique".
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Self-proclaimed experts online also sell advice vowing to help men "optimise" their physique.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
The artist also chronicled his own face and physique from youth through old age, with unflinching depictions of time’s toll.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The president’s son called Navarro “my boy” and complimented him on the “jacked” physique he developed while in prison.
From Salon ● May 31, 2026
This was the time of hygiene lectures, and of practicing blanket-baths on life-size models—Mrs. Mackintosh, Lady Chase, and baby George whose blandly impaired physique allowed him to double as a baby girl.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
I look at some of the physiques that step up on stage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
"I am genuinely worried for the young lads growing up and seeing these unrealistic physiques on Instagram," Whaite said in the tearful video.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025
Maybe they were just happy to have completed what Foster called “the most demanding winter that I’ve been part of here at UCLA,” which resulted in a legion of transformed physiques.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2025
Also known as water bears and moss piglets, tardigrades sport blobby physiques, lumbering gaits and perfectly circular mouths stuck in the middle of their otherwise-featureless faces.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2024
This highly refined coordination and cooperation must be multiplied out across eight individuals of varying statures and physiques to make the most of each individual’s strengths.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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