as in athletic
strongly and heavily built
a burly delivery man brought the furniture
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Recent Examples of burly
So, a lumber sport competition may bring to mind big, burly Paul Bunyan types with facial hair and flannel shirts.
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Maayan Silver, NPR, 25 July 2025
An Amorim goalkeeper is typically a burly shot-stopper who has a reasonable-to-good command of his six-yard box.
—Carl Anka, New York Times, 24 July 2025
The Trax Sport’s slightly burlier cousin, the Trax SUV, is also primed for city life.
—Eli Bernstein, Outside Online, 23 July 2025
The burly 22-year-old just needed something to go right.
—Kansas City Star, 9 July 2025
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Maayan Silver, NPR, 25 July 2025
An Amorim goalkeeper is typically a burly shot-stopper who has a reasonable-to-good command of his six-yard box.
—Carl Anka, New York Times, 24 July 2025
The Trax Sport’s slightly burlier cousin, the Trax SUV, is also primed for city life.
—Eli Bernstein, Outside Online, 23 July 2025
The burly 22-year-old just needed something to go right.
—Kansas City Star, 9 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for burly
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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Google has also begun rolling out two powerful filters for album searches.—
Paul Monckton,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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But when a powerful international corporation begins stealing people’s time, the world around her changes.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
14 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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Kevin Rathbun Steak One of Atlanta’s most respected chefs, Kevin Rathbun has a beefy reputation as a steak-master.—
Mike Jordan,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
12 Aug. 2025
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Though beefy humanoids like Boston Dynamics’ Atlas have been able to perform terrifyingly impressive feats of acrobatics for the better part of a decade, many of those feats were scripted and the result of meticulous coding and fine-tuning by human engineers.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
23 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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Zilpha still thought of Jaron as a man of Cornish hedges, although his work was with Charles Upchurch Sway Partners (CUSP), a hedge fund operated from a central trunk in Lausanne and its stout branch in New York.—
Annie Proulx,
New Yorker,
10 Aug. 2025
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The Pride came out with more intensity in the second half, searching for a way to break through Utah’s stout defense.—
Kyle Foley,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Burly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burly. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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