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hulky

[huhl-kee] / ˈhʌl ki /


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S.M. wrote, referring to the hulky actor and professional wrestler.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2025

The Flyers, Raymond says, are the personification of hockey itself: “plodding and big and hulky and weird.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2021

Both hulky former athletes then got out and argued in the street.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2017

He found Nenad Zimonjić, a hulky Serb four years his junior who had been having a good deal of success in mixed doubles.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 30, 2016

It’s as if she’s stepped down off the wall, the walls: the same round raw potato face, the hulky big-boned frame, the glittering spectacles and hairpin crown.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Even so, after the trailer was released, plenty of commenters were angry at Marvel for not making her hulkier.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022

Nearby, St. Balmain has a doughnut that is hulkier still, evoking a Parker House roll, browned on the outside and pale within.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2014




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