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a burly delivery man brought the furniture
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After serving in the Navy during World War II, the burly athlete returned to Clovis briefly.
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Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2025
Our guide at Al-Aqsa was a burly thirty-five-year-old orthopedics resident named Mohammad Shaheen.
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The third — a more burly version of the configuration that’s designed to smoothly move drivers onto westbound C-470 from northbound Santa Fe Drive — opens in April.
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The Mustangs have battered University inside with burly senior center James Claypool (17 points, 10 rebounds), and the Bulldogs have no answer.
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Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2025
Our guide at Al-Aqsa was a burly thirty-five-year-old orthopedics resident named Mohammad Shaheen.
—Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
The third — a more burly version of the configuration that’s designed to smoothly move drivers onto westbound C-470 from northbound Santa Fe Drive — opens in April.
—John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 20 Mar. 2025
The Mustangs have battered University inside with burly senior center James Claypool (17 points, 10 rebounds), and the Bulldogs have no answer.
—Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 12 Mar. 2025
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“Burly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burly. Accessed 19 May. 2025.
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burly
adjective
bur·ly
ˈbər-lē 
burlier; burliest
: strongly and heavily built
a burly man
burliness
noun
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