muscle-bound

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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. Steve Brusatte, Scientific American, 1 June 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for muscle-bound
Adjective
  • Dominic Solanke is a doubt for Sunday’s trip to West Ham United after also being forced off with a muscular problem during the Europa League tie.
    Elias Burke, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • Indeed, an ascendant wing of the Republican Party has actively pushed for a more muscular government—in the areas of family and industrial policy, for example—after reaching the conclusion that Reagan-style market orthodoxy has hollowed out communities, among other bad outcomes.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 2 May 2025
Adjective
  • The athletic guard was one of the Big Ten’s most consistent players, landing on the All-Big Ten first team.
    Bennett Conlin, Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2025
  • On Friday, Wood along with Hornets athletic director Mark Orr, Bibby and Otto Construction project manager Corbin Martin took The Bee on a venue tour of the new home court.
    Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 11 May 2025
Adjective
  • The annual meeting is an opportunity to celebrate the league's work over the past year, hear from a powerful advocate for Arkansas families and help shape the organization's direction for the future.
    Deb Harvell, Arkansas Online, 11 May 2025
  • This practice involves buzzing next to flowers whose pollen is only released when there is a powerful air current next to their anthers so that pollen can be released to the adjacent female stigmas, facilitating pollination.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 10 May 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • To complement those two, the Thunder are using the burly Jaylin Williams to come in and push him around physically.
    Tony Jones, New York Times, 12 May 2025
  • First, his linguistic talents need to be tested: My examiner was an infantry captain—a tough and burly Frenchman now in the U.S. Army.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Adjective
  • Blueberries Blueberries are a small but mighty superfruit packed with nutrients.
    Lindsey DeSoto, Health, 12 May 2025
  • Put together, these moves build well-rounded stability in your core, which helps this mighty muscle group respond appropriately no matter what forces are thrown its way.
    Jenny McCoy, SELF, 7 May 2025
Adjective
  • The most strapping pushback against MAGAland by Harris since Trump was sworn back in as POTUS, tonight’s fighting words are not the first time the ex-Veep has spoken out the past 100 days.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Henney is best known for playing the strapping and heroic Special Agent Matt Simmons on Criminal Minds.
    Hoda Mallone, People.com, 13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Thankfully, Charlotte has a few under-the-radar spots whose vegan and vegetarian french fries rival those cooked in the beefiest of tallow.
    Samantha Husted, Charlotte Observer, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Is Fisk, who just popped a hole in a jacket, going to gradually get bigger and beefier as the rest of the season/series unfolds?
    Charlie Mason, TVLine, 28 Mar. 2025

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“Muscle-bound.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muscle-bound. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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