brute

However, the Springboks' brute strength in the close quarters meant they could collect points without needing to resort to such high-risk passages of play.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

If you spot a guy swaggering like a brute from Eternia on the sidewalk, masked or not, he probably thinks he’s more awesome than everyone else does.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

The trilogy artfully transcends the binaries of empire, overlaying the brute facts of economy and race with ripping anecdotes, splendid uniforms and sensual Indian architecture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

It was not just about brute force, though, there were deft touches too.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026

I understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which' we stupidly impose our hopes and fears.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Except from behind the windshield, where he views the world as teeming with schemers and brutes, acting on all manner of Machiavellian impulses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2025

But it made a few of the par 4s, such as the 490-yard first and the 465-yard fifth, play like brutes.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2024

His uncompromising hostility toward revolutionaries inspired Thomas Paine to remark in 1776, “Even brutes do not devour their young, nor savages make war upon their families.”

From National Geographic ● Jul. 3, 2023

Both figures exist within the same body; both are brutes, in their way.

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2023

“They’ve scented a marten, that’s all. Those brutes stink so strong even I could pick up their smell!”

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

Moreover ye see what opinion is like to be conceiued of you, when it shalbe bruted that for the Marquize feare, you haue maried the Mantuan Lord.

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter

The newes of whose imprisonment was anon bruted through the realme, wherewith the Nobles fretted, and the commons curssed: finallie all men detested such tyrannie in the chancellour.

From Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First by Raphael Holinshed

The almanakes had well observed it: it was generally bruted in the Estates, that the execution should be on Saint Thomas day.

From Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois by Frederick S. Boas

Such was the valiancie of King Richard shown in manfull constraining of the citie, that his praise was greatly bruted both amongst the Christians and also the Saracens.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton

The wisedome of the Duke also was wonderfully extolled and commended of all men, the fame whereof was increased and bruted throughout the Region of Italy.

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter

Stones of fancy shape, such as square, or cushion shape, have to be formed in part by hand rubbing or "bruting" as it is called.

From A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public by Frank Bertram Wade