brawn
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Senior Peterhouse boat club members decided to choose their crew based on scores on a stationary rowing machine, which tends to favor brawn over skill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
The bottleneck to robot growth might not be the brains but the brawn.
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
Whitney High in Cerritos, long regarded as having one of the best academic schools inthe nation, proved on Saturday how brains and brawn can go together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2025
He’s just a schoolyard bully with less brawn and brain than he thinks, but excels at survival.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2025
He absorbed its violence and brawn as it slithered past, a massive steel serpent.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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