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stout

[staut] / staʊt /




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On week one of the competition, Mahir landed star baker after he stunned TV judges Nigella Lawson and Paul Hollywood with his peanut and caramel chocolate stout cake.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Denver is a tough place to play, and the Broncos defense is stout.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

If successful, researchers could recreate the taste of Guinness as it was brewed in 1864 using samples of the recovered stout.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

One man was summarily expelled after he posted a shot of Baby Guinness, a coffee-liqueur cocktail that looks like a stout but has no actual beer in it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Beowulf said, confused, for the shape was fairly stout, although, to be fair, not nearly as stout as a steam engine would be, and of course there were no train tracks running along the path.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

"A lot of pubs don't sell other stouts."

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2024

Alcohol-free beer: Today, lagers, stouts and ales can all be found in non-alcoholic form.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

Over three years at Founders Brewing, the 25-year-old saved enough money pouring IPAs, stouts and porters to pay cash for a 2009 Toyota Corolla.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2024

With such an array of flavors and ways to make these stouts truly unique, surely there's a barrel-aged beer for everyone.

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2022

"Some stouts are sweeter; some are a little lighter."

From O+F by John Moncure Wetterau

Mr. Walesa is now 82 and stouter than he was when he hurdled that fence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

Some snakes, such as boa constrictors, had long, slender upright teeth, whereas others, such as king snakes, had shorter, stouter, and more curved ones.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 4, 2024

Crist has dismissed Fried’s criticisms as last-ditch efforts to counter his stouter fundraising and high-profile endorsements.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2022

The researchers suspect physical activity changes levels of brain chemicals related to mood, such as dopamine and serotonin, and reduces inflammation throughout the body and brain, contributing physiologically to stouter mental health.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2022

To Legolas she gave a bow such as the Galadhrim used, longer and stouter than the bows of Mirkwood, and strung with a string elf-hair.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

On X, formerly Twitter, Elbridge Colby, a former US deputy assistant secretary of defence in the Trump administration, wrote that Japan and India "are two of our very stoutest and important allies".

From BBC ● May 2, 2024

Grover Stewart and the Colts have been one of the stoutest run defenses in the NFL.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 30, 2022

Now he was being thrust into 70 snaps against one of the Pac-12’s stoutest interiors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2022

Golfers rarely dwell on the past; even the best hit enough bad shots to break the stoutest heart.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2021

In this awful situation, the stoutest hearts began to fail.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy


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