as in athletic
strongly and heavily built
a burly delivery man brought the furniture
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Recent Examples of burly
Emanuel Hershberger—Manny to his friends—has an iron handshake, a bushy chin-strap beard, and the burly shoulders of a man who spends his downtime tending a 40-acre farm without mechanized equipment.
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Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 June 2025
Ryan and Rory bring a soulful-style harmony that meshes well with Johnson’s burly, warm vocal and further elevate the song’s timeless sound.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 23 June 2025
Huge, burly guys were tossing full carcasses out the backs.
—Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
The palenque circuit is de rigueur for Mexican artists, even a superstar like León — a burly man who tonight looks even bigger thanks to his ever-present high-crown cowboy hat.
—Leila Cobo, Billboard, 12 June 2025
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Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 June 2025
Ryan and Rory bring a soulful-style harmony that meshes well with Johnson’s burly, warm vocal and further elevate the song’s timeless sound.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 23 June 2025
Huge, burly guys were tossing full carcasses out the backs.
—Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
The palenque circuit is de rigueur for Mexican artists, even a superstar like León — a burly man who tonight looks even bigger thanks to his ever-present high-crown cowboy hat.
—Leila Cobo, Billboard, 12 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for burly
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Then, lace up your running shoes over the new wardrobe additions and crush all your athletic goals in style.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
23 July 2025
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Rice has been named head of ceremonies and content for the Olympic and Paralympic Games set to take place in Los Angeles in the summer of 2028, a move that taps a Hollywood executive to find new ways to communicate the grandeur of the athletic extravaganza during some of its signature events.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
23 July 2025
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Instead, aboard the spacecraft will be twin NASA satellites that will orbit Earth in tandem while studying how the sun's powerful activity can disrupt our planet's magnetosphere.—
Eric Lagatta,
AZCentral.com,
22 July 2025
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Multimodal Integration: Bridging Vision And Language Integrating vision with natural language understanding has led to powerful multimodal models that reason across modalities.—
Rahul Gudise,
Forbes.com,
21 July 2025
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Hank’s son Bobby is no longer a husky middle-schooler, but a 21-year-old running his own Japanese-German fusion restaurant in Dallas, for instance.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
30 July 2025
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Now, at only 23 years old, he's gone viral for his warm, husky voice and his Noah Kahan meets Zach Bryan country-folk sound.—
Audrey Gibbs,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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The pockets vary in size, some being small enough for a little flash drive and others large enough to fit the beefiest of portable chargers.—
Olivia Young,
Travel + Leisure,
3 July 2025
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While waves were beefy and allowed for plenty of surf excitement throughout the event, the swell picked up even more for the finals day on Saturday, with sets upward of 8 feet, even larger as the swell filled in throughout the day.—
Laylan Connelly,
Oc Register,
14 June 2025
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Istanbul has a small but mighty jazz scene with plenty of jazz clubs across the city featuring both local talent and international musicians.—
Kaitlyn McInnis,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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This small but mighty JBL Go 4 is honestly a golden find.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
24 July 2025
Adjective
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India Standard Time) atop a GSLV Mk II, one of India's brawniest rockets.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
30 July 2025
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On Saturday, the brawny colt will be the only horse in the Class of 2025 who will have run in all three races.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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In the years since, many of the faces of the original have died, including Barker, Weathers, Frances Bay, the hulking Richard Kiel and Joe Flaherty, who played the heckler.—
Jake Coyle,
Chicago Tribune,
23 July 2025
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Ben came back from their fateful space flight permanently transformed into a hulking rock monster, which hinders him from expressing his romantic feelings toward Rachel Rozman (Natasha Lyonne), a friendly teacher from his old neighborhood.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
22 July 2025
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Denver made several flashier additions this offseason, like ILB Dre Greenlaw, S Talanoa Hufanga and offensive skill players TE Evan Engram and RB J.K. Dobbins, but Jones’ locker room presence and stout play against the run are integral — if unheralded — ingredients to Vance Joseph’s defense.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
14 July 2025
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Palmeiras have been stout in their own right, shutting out Porto, Al Ahly and Botafogo in this competition.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 July 2025
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“Burly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burly. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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