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This burly gear will keep you safe as you venture into the dark.

While matters of opinion—including those thrown out in the hurly-burly of a talk show segment—are typically outside the realm of defamation, courts may find at least some of the “dozens” of allegedly false claims do not qualify as opinion.

From Fortune

The new card is burly enough to enable 120 frames per second performance in VR headsets like the Valve Index for super-smooth motion during any task.

I’d quadruple the recipe if you want to make more than just a batch, or skip the sandwiching altogether, which made for some pretty burly cookies.

From Eater

Not waiting around, which would make sense somewhat since Yang himself left the hurly-burly of the campaign back in February.

From Ozy

A burly Belgian, strapped with grenades and ammunition, towered above them.

Based on his sock puppet, I expected him to be a burly bearded giant clad in plaid—basically, a Canadian Paul Bunyan.

The film tells the story of Ron “Stray Dog” Hall, a burly, sixtysomething biker and Vietnam vet.

She tried the direct, how-do-you-do handshake approach, but was blocked by a burly aide-de-camp.

In recent years, Montana has been electing a certain breed of burly, alpha male Democrats.

Tom himself was burly, ruddy, broad, and rather above middle size.

This hurly-burly,” said he, drawing her into a quiet eddy of the stream, “is no place for the communion of two twin souls.

Out of a dark porch, ten paces along Bond Street, appeared a burly figure to fall into step a few yards behind Gray.

A man, burly and broad-shouldered, who had the air of a professional bully, walked by himself ahead.

A burly warrior scooped up coals on a piece of bark and with a fiendish grin leaped through the smoke.

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On this page you'll find 58 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to burly, such as: able-bodied, athletic, beefy, brawny, bulky, and hulking.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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