muscle-bound

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Recent Examples of muscle-bound But their skeletons seemed peculiar—stocky and muscle-bound, with mashups of features seen in various groups of modern-day mammals. Steve Brusatte, Scientific American, 1 June 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for muscle-bound
Adjective
  • Left behind by the president’s muscular new approach are thousands of women and children – some of them American citizens – who now face the loss of family and faith in the promise of a better life in the United States.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Young children who previously would have been condemned to certain death at the hands of a rare disease, such as severe spinal muscular atrophy, now have a chance at life.
    Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Cold water immersion has been extensively researched for athletic recovery (typically referred to as cold therapy), but has only more recently come into greater visibility as a solution for general stress and wellbeing.
    Tracy Brower, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • The Huskies athletic department reported $10.7 million in media rights and NCAA/conference distributions; South Carolina reported $53.8 million in those categories.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 6 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The changes are an attempt to ensure that people requesting citizenship have a true connection to Italy rather than a desire to obtain one of the most powerful passports in the world.
    Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The Trump administration has taken steps and made claims that clash with legal opinions issued by a traditionally powerful agency that is part of the Justice Department, the Office of Legal Counsel.
    Charlie Savage, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • One longs for the sinewy action of a Transformers flick, or the imaginative gravity of something like the first Pacific Rim.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Ahead of more anniversary celebrations later this year — including parties, exclusive jewels and the brand’s first pop-up — the sinewy signature has been redesigned entirely in white diamonds, representing a step into new territory for a creative with two decades of rich jewelry design behind her.
    Kate Matthams, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The burly Glover was a natural who never went to acting school or took an acting class — yet taught acting throughout his career, by most accounts quite effectively.
    Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Then, when Nationals manager Davey Martinez summoned a lefty to face Kyle Schwarber, the burly slugger smashed a first-pitch fastball.
    Matt Gelb, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Original price: $49.95 This portable mini speaker has mighty sound quality.
    Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • This mighty keychain has a pull-top pin that, when removed, causes the keychain to release an ultra-loud 130-decibel siren and flashing strobe light to help draw attention from onlookers while simultaneously deterring and confusing an attacker.
    Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Henney is best known for playing the strapping and heroic Special Agent Matt Simmons on Criminal Minds.
    Hoda Mallone, People.com, 13 Mar. 2025
  • In The Seventh Seal, von Sydow’s Antonius Block—a knight returning from the Crusades to find his country decimated by plague—is a strapping specimen of manhood coming face-to-face, literally, with his mortality.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 9 Mar. 2020
Adjective
  • First, beefy agents from the F.S.B., the federal security service, ransacked his apartment before dawn.
    Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2025
  • This beefy boy is based on the rugged D-Max AT35 that features a 1,898cc inline-four diesel engine dishing out 162 hp and 266lb.ft (360 Nm), mated to a manual or automatic transmission for a top speed of 112 mph (180 km/h) and a 3.5 ton towing capacity.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Mar. 2025

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“Muscle-bound.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muscle-bound. Accessed 11 Apr. 2025.

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