physique

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Even though he's nine inches shorter than the famously tall star, producers considered Ponomari's physique similar enough to cast him as a double.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

The lithe physique of the rubber man of tennis enabled him to chase down seemingly lost causes and he combined a brutally efficient game with a rock-solid defence.

From Barron's • Jan. 31, 2026

Since his arrival last month, Bovino, with his muscular physique and spiked hair, is dominating TV news and social media.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025

Chris Hemsworth is a health influencer in the same way that every celebrity with a shredded physique is a health influencer.

From Salon • Aug. 24, 2025

His daughter, writer Norah Christianson, remembers that he had “the body of a dancer, lithe and wiry and thin, everything in balance,” a physique ideally suited to the pitch and yaw of a horse’s withers.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand