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 beefier chip costs $380 to $450, though it can occasionally be found at $320.
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Sean Hollister,
The Verge,
1 June 2026
This beefy laptop blurs the line between an elite mobile gaming rig and a local-AI workstation.
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John Burek,
PC Magazine,
29 May 2026
The beefy mill pumped out around 750 hp brand new, according to CarScoops, which was in excess of 500 hp more than that year’s Mustang Cobra road car.
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Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
27 May 2026
The remoteness of their surroundings is no accident; one of these characters is fleeing an inconvenient past, which returns with a vengeance in the form of a beefy sadist (Benoît Magimel) and his two hostage-taking henchmen.
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Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
27 May 2026
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Sean Hollister,
The Verge,
1 June 2026
This beefy laptop blurs the line between an elite mobile gaming rig and a local-AI workstation.
—
John Burek,
PC Magazine,
29 May 2026
The beefy mill pumped out around 750 hp brand new, according to CarScoops, which was in excess of 500 hp more than that year’s Mustang Cobra road car.
—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
27 May 2026
The remoteness of their surroundings is no accident; one of these characters is fleeing an inconvenient past, which returns with a vengeance in the form of a beefy sadist (Benoît Magimel) and his two hostage-taking henchmen.
—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
27 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beefy
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Never worry about scrubbing away stains from your pets or children again with this powerful carpet and upholstery cleaner.
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The dynamic Sun in your 3rd House of Communication quincunxes powerful Pluto in your 10th House of Career, creating tension between daily tasks and authority.
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Johnson is an athletic big who can guard multiple positions despite standing 6-9 and 250 pounds with an impressive 7-3 wingspan.
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At one practice during the fall of 2024, Washington’s assistant athletic director of football academics Diamond Brown was standing on the sideline when Jonah bounded up to her in full pads and begun complaining about his grade in a music class.
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The burly bureaucrat in dark slacks and a navy sweater has a scruffy beard and the frazzled look of an anonymous factotum thrust into the limelight.
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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.
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Known for a unique approach to improvisation and his warm, husky voice, Ulmer settled into a niche of his own in the late Seventies and early Eighties.
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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.
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These small but mighty earbuds promise superior sound quality and noise cancellation in their compact, ergonomic design.
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Westeros will be engulfed in flames as the Dance of the Dragons sweeps away knights riding their mighty creatures and entire armies.
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The comparison suggests Mexican winemaking is a monolith and that its offerings mimic Napa’s brawny fruit-forward wines—two deeply misguided assumptions.
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Some might make the case that 2005’s brawny alien apocalypse action thriller War of the Worlds fits the bill.
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However, Jupiter's hulking presence blocked most of that flow, keeping more of that rock, dust, and gas trapped in the inner solar system.
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That display is dwarfed by the hulking frames containing hundreds of buttons accumulated over two decades.
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Be sure to cover your head and neck with your arms, and crawl under a sturdy table if possible.
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Serving tray for entertaining $25 to $50 This straightforward serving tray is a reliable standard that’s sturdy and comes in seven colors.
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“Beefy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beefy. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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