as in powerful
strongly and heavily built
a beefy man who worked in a warehouse all his life
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Recent Examples of beefy
Miller was a beefy center who helped Arkansas advance to the Final Four before playing nine seasons in the NBA.
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Ryan Morik, Fox News, 13 Mar. 2025
The pivot after playing the beefy Capitals at home before contending with a speedy Utah roster on the road made for tough sledding, aided in part by a strong performance from veteran Ville Husso in his Ducks debut after being traded from Detroit.
—Andrew Knoll, Orange County Register, 13 Mar. 2025
Oliver Miller, a beefy center who helped Arkansas advance to the Final Four before playing nine seasons in the NBA, has died.
—CBS News, 13 Mar. 2025
While this 15-inch Air serves up the best value in a big-screen MacBook to date, with lower prices, improved features, and beefier starting configurations, some competitors now can outpace its processor and outlast its battery.
—PCMAG, 12 Mar. 2025
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Ryan Morik, Fox News, 13 Mar. 2025
The pivot after playing the beefy Capitals at home before contending with a speedy Utah roster on the road made for tough sledding, aided in part by a strong performance from veteran Ville Husso in his Ducks debut after being traded from Detroit.
—Andrew Knoll, Orange County Register, 13 Mar. 2025
Oliver Miller, a beefy center who helped Arkansas advance to the Final Four before playing nine seasons in the NBA, has died.
—CBS News, 13 Mar. 2025
While this 15-inch Air serves up the best value in a big-screen MacBook to date, with lower prices, improved features, and beefier starting configurations, some competitors now can outpace its processor and outlast its battery.
—PCMAG, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beefy
Adjective
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Unlike his small-time Israeli rivals, the placards implied, Netanyahu was a savvy statesman who punched above his weight on the international stage, thanks to his unaccented English oratory and ability to inveigle the world’s most powerful people.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2025
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But against one of the most powerful lineups in the nation, the Bearcats fell short of their expectations.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 May 2025
Adjective
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Although Durant was unquestionably the better Thunder player during his stint with Westbrook and Harden, Westbrook had the longer run, playing in Oklahoma City through close to the tail end of his athletic prime.—
Alex Kirschenbaum,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 May 2025
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Sabol, an operations manager from Madison with an athletic background that bonded her with the show's lead, entered the finale of the Fox reality show as one of two women left on Farmer Jay Woods' Alabama farm.—
Christopher Kuhagen,
USA Today,
24 May 2025
Adjective
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To complement those two, the Thunder are using the burly Jaylin Williams to come in and push him around physically.—
Tony Jones,
New York Times,
12 May 2025
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First, his linguistic talents need to be tested: My examiner was an infantry captain—a tough and burly Frenchman now in the U.S. Army.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
5 May 2025
Adjective
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Fred Clemens, the lodge owner, told us that a few big bass had been caught in Grassy Bay, also some husky channel cats running to 12 pounds.—
Don Shiner,
Outdoor Life,
14 May 2025
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In a viral TikTok video, a Siberian husky puppy is filmed meeting a kitten for the very first time in his life, and his heartening reaction to the feline has quickly turned him into a social-media sensation.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Blueberries Blueberries are a small but mighty superfruit packed with nutrients.—
Lindsey DeSoto,
Health,
12 May 2025
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From a surprise baby bump to a sleek race-car entrance, these celebrities joined a small but mighty club of stars who have opted to make the famous Met steps not just a runway but a stage.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
7 May 2025
Adjective
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The contrast between two slight female IGPN officers and one large brawny male officer makes menacingly real the power play underlying an interview.—
Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
15 May 2025
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At Flanders, the peloton’s big and brawny racers like Flemish hero Wout van Aert or Dutch racer Mathieu van der Poel get to shine.—
Frederick Dreier,
Outside Online,
2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The Met has marshalled its lavish resources to present its first new staging of the work since 2004: hulking sets, images of artful horror, Wagnerian voices, a monster orchestra unleashing a storm of sound.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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And while there’s still some humor to be mined from the general inhumanity of this hulking tank quietly standing around in someone else’s story, the narrative isn’t complex enough to sustain itself.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
15 May 2025
Adjective
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For your safety, move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
14 May 2025
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Another option is to wrap a towel around something sturdy, like a beam, pole, or even a door frame and do a bodyweight row from there.—
Christa Sgobba,
SELF,
12 May 2025
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“Beefy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beefy. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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