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Recent Examples of big-boned
Two large and in charge ladies were involved in a street fight in West Hollywood early Saturday morning that left one of the big-boned women bleeding from her face.
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Sean Joseph Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
1 June 2026
Speaking of big dude, the chair is rated for the big-boned as well.
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New Atlas,
5 Dec. 2025
Jean-Yves Thibaudet was the right guest in every way for the big-boned performance at the Huntington.
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Los Angeles Times,
12 July 2025
Many enduring genres crystallized in the mid-thirties—the screwball comedy, the grand-scale action adventure, big-boned literary adaptations, the modern musical (a template exemplified by the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers)—and all were illuminated and endorsed by Sennwald.
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Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
7 May 2025
The last time Jez Butterworth and Sam Mendes rode into Broadway on the back of a big-boned new play, smothered in five-star reviews and Olivier awards, there were geese, and babies, and bunnies.
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Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
29 Sep. 2024
Sean Joseph Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
1 June 2026
Speaking of big dude, the chair is rated for the big-boned as well.
—
New Atlas,
5 Dec. 2025
Jean-Yves Thibaudet was the right guest in every way for the big-boned performance at the Huntington.
—
Los Angeles Times,
12 July 2025
Many enduring genres crystallized in the mid-thirties—the screwball comedy, the grand-scale action adventure, big-boned literary adaptations, the modern musical (a template exemplified by the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers)—and all were illuminated and endorsed by Sennwald.
—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
7 May 2025
The last time Jez Butterworth and Sam Mendes rode into Broadway on the back of a big-boned new play, smothered in five-star reviews and Olivier awards, there were geese, and babies, and bunnies.
—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
29 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for big-boned
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Gray, a lanky man with a gray mustache, volunteers as a docent at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, just across from Boeing Field.
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Green's first two seasons in college went according to script and the lanky downfield threat was as good as advertised, earning first-team All-SEC honors in back-to-back years.
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Whereas the sights and sounds of South End lean toward bar crowds and joggers traversing the Rail Trail, SouthPark is more about catching a whiff of Le Labo and seeing couples settle in at a corner table with glasses of Cabernet and small plates.
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These colors will pop even more when the sun hits them, so lean into the wow-factor of the boldest, most unapologetic hues on pillows, pots, and furnishings.
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His register has the ability to do justice to Mercury’s legendary vocals, which were rangy yet specific.
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Wideman, one of our more prolific and fascinating novelists, wrote a rangy memoir of his own court time back in 2003.
Adjective
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Instead of sticking to styles that squeeze your legs in a skinny-jean kind of way, opt for looser, baggier silhouettes like these from Levi’s.
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Already existing as a divisive pick, skinny jeans are taking a back seat this summer.
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Your neighbors probably won't be bothered by your weedy flower beds or rusty lawn furniture.
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July is a good time to fill in bare or now weedy spots left by winter, drought or pests.
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Nick Boyd, guard, 6-1, Wisconsin A wiry guard who, like Saunders above, is already 25 years old, Boyd’s stat profile doesn’t jump off the page.
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Those themes are compelling on paper, but they’re expressed through a confusing mix of abstraction and hyper-local specificity, hidden beneath biker rock riffs, and obscured through Allbrook’s wiry, wailing vocal delivery.
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Oh no, Armand’s got his spindly roots in the band!
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In the video, the musician trashes an apartment, gets out of a cop car, and runs through a field at golden hour with spindly pylons in the background.
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The prosecutor, Johann Frischman, laid out, in a reedy voice, the criminal complaint.
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Among those acolytes is Lucien (Jérémy Gillet), a reedy, repressed young virgin who yearns to be part of the gay community but hasn’t the courage to come out to his domineering mother Christine (Elisabeth Wiener), who also just happens to be the country’s very right-wing health minister.
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“Big-boned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/big-boned. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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