brawny
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Koe Wetzel brought his brawny yet soulful new country-rock album, “The Night Champion,” to the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on Monday night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
These signals piggyback on the brawny Bang & Olufsen audio system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Key details: Consumer spending, the chief engine of the economy, grew at a brawny 3.5% rate in third quarter.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 23, 2025
He’s also played by Cena, a retiring professional wrestler who embodies the white American male ideal – brawny, handsome, a good guy.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2025
A cluster of brawny men stood up near him.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
The result is that eastern coyotes are a bit brawnier than those out west.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2022
Caan’s taking the lead in Norman Jewison’s big-budget sports movie could have looked like the same move, downshifting his considerable onscreen intelligence into something a bit brawnier.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2022
The truth is, however, that the auto industry is addicted to sales of big, heavy gas-fueled SUVs and pickups, which are only becoming brawnier with every model year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2020
Clement, the brawnier and gigglier one, agrees: “Yeah, we love doing it, but we wouldn’t watch it.”
From The Guardian ● Jun. 18, 2018
Anne's husband, Henry Ransome, seemed, so far as very brief observation enabled me to judge, quite a different person from his much younger, as well as much bigger and brawnier associate.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 431 Volume 17, New Series, April 3, 1852 by William Chambers
What is thought to be the world's debut bodybuilding contest, in 1901, saw 60 competitors trying to prove to a group of three judges who had the brawniest muscles.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2021
Through the Depression and the war years, the pages of Esquire were the place to be for the brightest and brawniest of American writers.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2017
From the stage, his brawniest hooks become stadium-grade singalongs, while his ballads offer an intimacy that can make the nosebleeds feel close.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2015
There is one other catch, and it weighs heavily on the pivotal task of recruiting the nation’s brawniest and fastest high school football players, an oft-pampered group wooed with all manner of enticements.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2012
He was the largest and brawniest of the boys and seemed to be their leader.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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