as in athletic
strongly and heavily built
a burly delivery man brought the furniture
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Recent Examples of burly
With burly melancholy, Wong plays Ah Tseng, a Chinese migrant worker employed — with his young nephews — in the Rock Springs coal mines, though introduced on an idle day off in their makeshift camp.
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Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Jan. 2026
Peat, meanwhile, is a freak athlete, a big burly forward with explosive verticality.
—Lindsay Schnell, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2026
Venezuelans awoke the next morning to news that the tall, burly man who had ruled the country for nearly 13 years and through fraudulent elections was forcefully extradited by the Americans back to the United States to stand trial.
—Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
Topoak complements the burly shell construction with aluminum honeycomb floor panels and a tent body made from 300gsm poly-cotton blackout canvas designed to reflect UV rays and keep the interior cooler in hot weather.
—New Atlas, 13 Dec. 2025
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Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Jan. 2026
Peat, meanwhile, is a freak athlete, a big burly forward with explosive verticality.
—Lindsay Schnell, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2026
Venezuelans awoke the next morning to news that the tall, burly man who had ruled the country for nearly 13 years and through fraudulent elections was forcefully extradited by the Americans back to the United States to stand trial.
—Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
Topoak complements the burly shell construction with aluminum honeycomb floor panels and a tent body made from 300gsm poly-cotton blackout canvas designed to reflect UV rays and keep the interior cooler in hot weather.
—New Atlas, 13 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for burly
Adjective
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The study makes clear that the $194 million figure encompasses the economic impact of the entire Sac State athletic program with football at the FBS level for one academic year.—
Michael McGough,
Sacbee.com,
8 Mar. 2026
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Perrotti manages more than 1,100 athletic events annually and leads fundraising and community partnerships that support athletic programs at the high school.—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
8 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Yet launching a conversation around mental health with an audience magnet as powerful as Radcliffe is on balance an excellent thing.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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But generating stable and powerful light in this region has proven difficult because most materials strongly absorb it.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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One such pet, Lainey, a husky shepherd, was found after going missing in Arizona with the help of a neighbor's Ring camera.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
13 Feb. 2026
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The team can help plan reindeer and husky rides, reindeer farm visits, snowmobiles tours across the area’s fells and taiga forests, or Aurora-chasing tours, guided by local experts.—
Dobrina Zhekova,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Bright and early the next morning, Mustapha Abdelfatah, a bespectacled translator-chaperone, and a beefy driver-bodyguard named Slimane Labaoui, who, in a bit of cross-cultural typecasting, played a warrior in Gladiator, met me in the forecourt of Dar Ahlam.—
Kevin West,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Mar. 2026
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They’re taught from an early age to avoid the beefy part of the strike zone.—
Kevin Sherrington
Mar. 9,
Dallas Morning News,
9 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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With Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark looking on, Hermann Maier wins the giant slalom for his 13th victory this season, equaling one of the mightiest alpine skiing records.—
Senior Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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And fans showered praise on the Longhorns for one of the most comprehensive beatdowns laid on the mighty Gamecocks of the past few seasons.—
American Statesman sports desk,
Austin American Statesman,
9 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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With tribe immunity at a premium in these early episodes, the targets may well be the players known as brainy schemers rather than brawny athletes.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
25 Feb. 2026
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Gone are the days of a brawny construction worker or brainy engineer stepping up to build a sturdy shelter, winning the admiration (or the loathing) of their new tribemates.—
Kristen Geil,
Outside,
24 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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One is the repeal of the tax breaks, and another is designed to protect consumers from paying for infrastructure costs associated with serving the hulking computing centers.—
Kristi Swartz,
AJC.com,
7 Mar. 2026
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Micron’s hulking worksite warps the scale of every building in Southeast Boise.—
Mark Dee
March 3,
Idaho Statesman,
3 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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While the lineup is stacked, the DR also is stout on the mound.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
12 Mar. 2026
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Chunks of meat slowly braise until fork-tender in a hearty broth brightened by tomato and spiked with stout ale.—
Lynda Balslev,
Mercury News,
10 Mar. 2026
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“Burly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burly. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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