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brute

adjective as in very strong; animal-like

noun as in barbarian

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Samer Issa said four suspects were recently arrested in a series of robberies and burglaries that removed the machines with brute force at liquor stores in the Mission Hills and West Valley area.

Seemingly magical powers, and proof that rugby league is more than physicality and brute strength.

From BBC

They’re also versions of survivors that don’t neatly fit into the popular fantasy of brute strength and frontier gutsiness.

From Salon

Civil rights leaders certainly knew that love can seem like a flimsy weapon against brute oppression: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote that he once “despaired of the power of love in solving social problems.”

And Total Film's Jamie Graham said Watkins' "shrewd, engrossing and pleasingly nasty" imagining is unafraid to push the source material in new directions, with McAvoy "perfect... for this particular brand of Alpha male brute".

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

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