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
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.
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Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 14 June 2025
These hefty meatloaf sandwiches are juicy, very beefy, and crowned with a sweet ketchup glaze.
—Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 10 June 2025
This is a beefy AI workstation with an Nvidia GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip, cramming server-grade Grace Blackwell hardware into a single motherboard.
—Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 24 May 2025
An older, beefy man stands by the window, holding a walkie-talkie close to his ear and anxiously glancing up and down the street where cars and military vehicles pass by.
—Isobel Yeung, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
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Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 14 June 2025
These hefty meatloaf sandwiches are juicy, very beefy, and crowned with a sweet ketchup glaze.
—Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 10 June 2025
This is a beefy AI workstation with an Nvidia GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip, cramming server-grade Grace Blackwell hardware into a single motherboard.
—Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 24 May 2025
An older, beefy man stands by the window, holding a walkie-talkie close to his ear and anxiously glancing up and down the street where cars and military vehicles pass by.
—Isobel Yeung, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beefy
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Google has also begun rolling out two powerful filters for album searches.—
Paul Monckton,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Increasingly powerful light microscopes followed, revealing cell organelles like the nucleus and energy-producing mitochondria.—
Katarina Zimmer,
JSTOR Daily,
14 Aug. 2025
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The issue came up because the Ravens recently renovated their athletic performance center, which now includes a recovery pool.—
Sophie Kaufman,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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The match gave fans a glimpse of what the athletic star can bring to the AEW roster.—
Andrew Ravens,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Aug. 2025
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There’s not a lot that should make a big, bearded, burly NHL defenseman nervous.—
Sam Blum,
New York Times,
22 Aug. 2025
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As previously hinted, fans of the original series know which of Ellen’s brothers emerges victorious: burly Dougal (Sam Retford) or clever, crippled Colum (a superb Séamus McLean Ross).—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Aug. 2025
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The exception may be the size of the potato gnocchi, husky rectangles of creamy potato dumplings in a lemon butter sauce, circling jumbo lump crab morsels dappled with chives.—
Beth D'Addono,
Southern Living,
4 Aug. 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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The definition of small but mighty, these tiny little seeds will introduce an impressive fiber punch into any salad, smoothie, breakfast bowl, or chia pudding—to the tune of around four grams per tablespoon, to be specific.—
Caroline Tien,
SELF,
20 Aug. 2025
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Iggy and Stooges were already part of the punk fabric of New York City, and became ubiquitous at CBGB, fueling the fury of flourishing bands like The Ramones and Blondie who rose to prominence on the small but mighty stage.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes.com,
19 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The stately and imposing Graham McTavish helped lead Outlander as brawny war chief Dougal MacKenzie on the first two seasons of Outlander, though the actor would return for a couple more appearances later in the series.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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And brawny local dad Archer Graff (Josh Brolin), whose son is one of the missing children, is determined to find out what that something might be.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
6 Aug. 2025
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While this is happening, Pike’s party meets their visitors, intruders in hulking uniforms.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
14 Aug. 2025
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The purpose here, though, was entirely on pushing the Silverado EV, and its hulking 205-kWh battery, to its absolute limit so recreating any type of realistic driving scenario was not a prerequisite.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
9 Aug. 2025
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The immolation of the Bronx was all the more staggering because, a generation before, it had been filled with upwardly mobile residents in sturdy homes.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2025
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For five rounds, Chimaev rag-dolled a massive and sturdy champion in Dricus Du Plessis en route to a decisive victory (50-44 x3).—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
17 Aug. 2025
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“Beefy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beefy. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.
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