as in athletic
strongly and heavily built
the shot put, hammer throw, and other field events for which mesomorphic athletes are well-suited
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Recent Examples of mesomorphic
This body type is also known as a mesomorphic body shape.
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Cari Shane, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2022
Cari Shane, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mesomorphic
Adjective
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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
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The logic is clear: federal funds, institutional oversight, and NCAA membership make universities easier to regulate than high school districts, which are governed by state athletic associations.—
Aaron S. Marks,
Hartford Courant,
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
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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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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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These can lead to blindness, light sensitivity, cough, shortness of breath, and muscular weakness.4 IgA pemphigus causes eruptions of itchy and painful blisters that appear in circles or clusters on your skin.—
Mark Gurarie,
Health,
10 Aug. 2025
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The director’s many fans are anticipating his signature blend of muscular craftsmanship, elegant mise-en-scène, psychological intensity and moral ambiguity.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Aug. 2025
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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
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“Mesomorphic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mesomorphic. Accessed 24 Aug. 2025.
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