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
The rise instructor beamed, his pocked, beefy face and beard all gone gray.
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 18 May 2026
Dusky sharks are not as beefy as white sharks, and their tail movements are more snake-like.
—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 18 May 2026
That means the fries and tots here will have that extra beefy kick.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 18 May 2026
Musgraves and Lambert are two of the most important figures in country music in the 21st century, so the pairing would have been historic even without the beefy backstory.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 29 Apr. 2026
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 18 May 2026
Dusky sharks are not as beefy as white sharks, and their tail movements are more snake-like.
—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 18 May 2026
That means the fries and tots here will have that extra beefy kick.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 18 May 2026
Musgraves and Lambert are two of the most important figures in country music in the 21st century, so the pairing would have been historic even without the beefy backstory.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 29 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beefy
Adjective
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Chemical thrusters burn fuel fast and generate a powerful, rapid thrust that is key for changing orbit in seconds.—
Omar Kardoudi
June 05,
New Atlas,
5 June 2026
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There have been numerous conspiracy theories that Epstein was killed because of his connection to wealthy and powerful people.—
Daniel Ruetenik,
CBS News,
4 June 2026
Adjective
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Jason Coughran, a 60-year-old with an athletic build, had set out on a trek last Monday into Desolation Wilderness from nearby Fallen Leaf Lake.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
31 May 2026
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An athletic, contemporary ballet by Alexandra Schooling (Oklahoma City Ballet, PDX Contemporary Ballet) is accompanied by an original score by Chris Desien.—
Marcia Luttrell,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 May 2026
Adjective
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Inside a black metal cage at the courtroom’s edge, three men waited silently to face the chief judge, a burly brigadier general in the Lebanese Army.—
Euan Ward,
New Yorker,
29 May 2026
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Amin Abdullah, 51 (San Diego Police Department) Abdullah was known for his burly figure and his warm smile.—
Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2026
Adjective
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The 5-year-old husky mix is a regular at Spot's Place in Regina, Saskatchewan, usually attending Monday through Friday.—
Kendall Malinchock,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2026
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In juvenile court Monday, as the teenager with a husky build and beard sat at the defendant’s table, Judge Christopher Van Meir ruled that the teen would remain in custody at least until the next court hearing, scheduled for April 27.—
Julia Prodis Sulek,
Mercury News,
14 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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But my belief is that this is the mighty theme contemporary fiction has largely overlooked.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
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The Sooners led 10-8 after four innings and then tamed the mighty Yellow Jackets’ bats.—
Gabriel Burns,
AJC.com,
1 June 2026
Adjective
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He gets reacquainted 15 years later with his Sword of Power along with childhood chum Teela (Camila Mendes), who’s brainier and brawnier than the majority of the guys, and his former Man-at-Arms Duncan (Idris Elba), the former protector of Adam’s family.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
3 June 2026
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Yet once Adam is fully in command of his sword, so to speak, and subjected to a brawny He-Man makeover that at least spares him the lank bowl cut of the original model, things get rather less spry.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
2 June 2026
Adjective
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Given the dramatic manner in which the hulking piers marched down the center of the institution’s narrow corridor, flanked by the photographer’s three-inch-square Polaroids, hung as if in awed supplication, the effect verged on hyperbole, the gnomic ceding to the grandiose.—
James Quandt,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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Just as the coach embraced Iheanchor, the hulking offensive tackle’s phone rang.—
Mike DeFabo,
New York Times,
1 June 2026
Adjective
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Be sure to cover your head and neck with your arms, and crawl under a sturdy table if possible.—
CA Earthquake Bot,
Sacbee.com,
29 May 2026
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Tutt and his teams have worked on engineering designs to safely drop anything needing a sturdy parachute — including the Orion capsule that splashed down last month off the coast of San Diego after its 477,710-mile journey to the moon and back.—
Pat Maio,
Oc Register,
29 May 2026
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“Beefy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beefy. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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