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
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.
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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
Thankfully, Charlotte has a few under-the-radar spots whose vegan and vegetarian french fries rival those cooked in the beefiest of tallow.
—Samantha Husted, Charlotte Observer, 21 Apr. 2025
Is Fisk, who just popped a hole in a jacket, going to gradually get bigger and beefier as the rest of the season/series unfolds?
—Charlie Mason, TVLine, 28 Mar. 2025
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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
Thankfully, Charlotte has a few under-the-radar spots whose vegan and vegetarian french fries rival those cooked in the beefiest of tallow.
—Samantha Husted, Charlotte Observer, 21 Apr. 2025
Is Fisk, who just popped a hole in a jacket, going to gradually get bigger and beefier as the rest of the season/series unfolds?
—Charlie Mason, TVLine, 28 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for beefy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beefy
Adjective
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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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Yet the project still has powerful defenders — Gov. Gavin Newsom, major labor and environmental groups, and many transit experts — who argue that despite early mistakes, the state can’t afford to walk away.—
Tina Li,
Sacbee.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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Still, today, nobody is ready to see big, strong, kind of burly girls up there on the stage, fronting a rock band.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
7 Aug. 2025
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The wheels are burly and the telescoping handle allows for a smooth pull.—
Francesca Krempa,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
7 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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But this mighty American consumer has slow seasons, and the summer of 2025 appears to be one of them.—
Leo Schwartz,
Fortune,
6 Aug. 2025
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These ultra-compact binoculars are small but mighty.—
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FOXNews.com,
6 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
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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The large arachnids may look like any normal tarantula from first glance — long, sturdy legs, hair covering their bodies and two shorter legs at the front of the body poised to grab unsuspecting prey.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
4 Aug. 2025
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Alem and Schneider arrived at their farm plot in Bronzeville in broad-brimmed hats and sturdy boots, ready to harvest zucchini and cucumber under a blazing summer sun.—
Nara Schoenberg,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Beefy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beefy. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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