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Recent Examples of muscle-bound
But their skeletons seemed peculiar—stocky and muscle-bound, with mashups of features seen in various groups of modern-day mammals.
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Steve Brusatte, Scientific American, 1 June 2022
Steve Brusatte, Scientific American, 1 June 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for muscle-bound
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And the Nazis reinvented Jesus as a muscular Aryan hero who fought Jews.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
13 Apr. 2025
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However, shortly after scoring her side’s third goal of the match, she was substituted with the muscular problem.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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The government’s threats could impact Harvard’s athletic department, which sponsors 42 varsity sports—more than any other D-I school in the country.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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Several of the school’s 23 athletic programs — 10 men’s, 13 women’s — have been very successful.—
Steve Lyttle,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Apr. 2025
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Led by 28-year olds Frederic Boesel and Jonas Muller—along with their over 30 cofounders—the company is positioning itself to be a big mover in AI, making the base models underpinning powerful image generation widely accessible.—
Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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The formula combines powerful but gentle ingredients like tranexamic acid, kojic acid, and niacinamide to tackle dark spots, acne scars, and uneven tone.—
Christa Joanna Lee,
Allure,
15 Apr. 2025
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Think Zaha Hadid, known for her futuristic, sinewy forms that seem to defy structural logic (see, for example, the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan).—
Nick Remsen,
CNN Money,
7 Apr. 2025
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One longs for the sinewy action of a Transformers flick, or the imaginative gravity of something like the first Pacific Rim.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2025
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The Mustangs have battered University inside with burly senior center James Claypool (17 points, 10 rebounds), and the Bulldogs have no answer.—
Patrick Saunders,
The Denver Post,
12 Mar. 2025
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Wetzel, a burly Texan with a rowdy rep, sang about self-medicating and self-sabotaging, with a little self-mythologizing along the way.—
Rolling Stone,
Rolling Stone,
28 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Across the Plains states, where waves of commodity grains roll like a mighty Goliath, the percentage of farmers selling food directly to consumers is below 4%.—
Melanie Stetson Freeman,
Christian Science Monitor,
22 Apr. 2025
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Since 2021, PreSonus has been part of the mighty Fender Group, an American company that’s imbued with the magic of the music industry and founded by Leo Fender back in 1946 from Fullerton, California.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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Henney is best known for playing the strapping and heroic Special Agent Matt Simmons on Criminal Minds.—
Hoda Mallone,
People.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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In The Seventh Seal, von Sydow’s Antonius Block—a knight returning from the Crusades to find his country decimated by plague—is a strapping specimen of manhood coming face-to-face, literally, with his mortality.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
9 Mar. 2020
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In retrospect, the 2015 title feels like a precursor to Breath of the Wild, with its sprawling open world design and technological wizardry that allowed an underpowered console to swing big with a game whose size was comparable to those running on beefier hardware.—
Hayes Madsen,
Rolling Stone,
19 Mar. 2025
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Lobel’s The red meat destination in section 134 is adding a beefy new option in 2025.—
Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Muscle-bound.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muscle-bound. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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