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stout

adjective as in courageous

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The Colts were tested by a stout Arizona Cardinals defense last week but still put up 31 points in a comeback victory, Jones saying it was the kind of challenge that only improves the team.

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More importantly, “Unabridged” is a stout defense of the craft of making dictionaries.

Short and stout, he was unprepossessing and—especially unfortunate for a connoisseur of visual art—would soon lose the use of one eye in a car accident.

“He’s strong and he’s stout, you can’t really move him. And you think like, ‘Oh, Poona is just a big run stopper or somebody that could just help with the run.’

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Now the Rams have added the stout Ford to shore up the run defense.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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