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stout

[staut] / staʊt /




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Mark Zuckerberg became a viral meme after taking a painfully awkward sip of a Guinness Irish stout in a podcast clip.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Denver is a tough place to play, and the Broncos defense is stout.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

That resilience bodes well for Scotland's third group game, where another stout defensive display is of vital importance.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026

Other artefacts include an empty bottle of Armstrong and Dickie stout, likely produced at the former aerated waterworks site at the nearby Whitesands.

From BBC ● May 4, 2026

Wrestling wildly with the stout bars and bolts, he managed somehow to open the small iron door.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

"A lot of pubs don't sell other stouts."

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2024

Alcohol-free beer: Today, lagers, stouts and ales can all be found in non-alcoholic form.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

While I only recently came around to pumpkin as a dessert flavor, I’ve always been a fan of stouts.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2022

"That's not to say there aren't plenty of breweries making great lagers or stouts, but other styles like bitters, milds, saisons, etcetera are much harder to find than they were even 10 years ago."

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2022

For mild ales and porters about 3 to 4 lb, for light pale ales and light stouts 6 to 10 lb, and for strong ales and stouts 9 to 15 lb of hops are employed.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various

Mr. Walesa is now 82 and stouter than he was when he hurdled that fence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

Some snakes, such as boa constrictors, had long, slender upright teeth, whereas others, such as king snakes, had shorter, stouter, and more curved ones.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 4, 2024

Things are a bit stouter on the defensive side where four teams, led by No. 22 Florida, among the top 20 in yards given up this season.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2023

The researchers suspect physical activity changes levels of brain chemicals related to mood, such as dopamine and serotonin, and reduces inflammation throughout the body and brain, contributing physiologically to stouter mental health.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2022

Mama was a short woman— a little stouter than she liked to admit—who wheezed and got a red face when she had to climb steps.

From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden

On X, formerly Twitter, Elbridge Colby, a former US deputy assistant secretary of defence in the Trump administration, wrote that Japan and India "are two of our very stoutest and important allies".

From BBC ● May 2, 2024

Grover Stewart and the Colts have been one of the stoutest run defenses in the NFL.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2022

A flagon of your stoutest for my friend.

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022

Now he was being thrust into 70 snaps against one of the Pac-12’s stoutest interiors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2022

They had heard enough about Efrafa to daunt the stoutest heart.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams


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