as in athletic
strongly and heavily built
the shot put, hammer throw, and other field events for which mesomorphic athletes are well-suited
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Recent Examples of mesomorphic
This body type is also known as a mesomorphic body shape.
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Cari Shane, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2022
Cari Shane, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mesomorphic
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Bohn resigned in May 2023, a day after The Times asked him and USC about internal criticism of his management of the athletic department.Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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The company works with more than 100 sports teams of various sizes, including some of the world’s most prominent—Manchester United, Alabama’s football team, USA Softball and the University of Southern California athletic department.Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 10 Jan. 2025
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At the same time, those gains continue to be threatened as powerful, dry winds ignite and intensify flames.Juliana Kim, NPR, 10 Jan. 2025
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Notre Dame went ahead with a powerful, 2-yard rush by Jeremiyah Love, who broke four tackles to reach the goal line.Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2025
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Normani continues to show off her personal innovations on Brandy’s vocal playbook, while Khalid displays his growth as a duet partner, offering up a rich, husky complement to Mani’s airier timbre.Kyle Denis, Billboard, 9 Dec. 2024
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The country titan performed a series a barnburners that ran on his husky, soulful voice.Mars Salazar, Austin American-Statesman, 11 Oct. 2024
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Allen, 35, the city worker, is a burly University of Kansas graduate from Shawnee who, in his 20s, battled and beat his own addictions.Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 13 Jan. 2025
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The burly defenseman was arguably the Flyers’ best player in their home-and-home with the Maple Leafs, playing a physical game while roaming all around the ice and creating scoring chances, too.Kevin Kurz, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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Benelli There are beefy CST tires on 16-inch cast-aluminum wheels.New Atlas, New Atlas, 11 Jan. 2025
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The PlayStation 5 will arguably be best remembered for beefy open-world games, serious narrative titles, and multiplayer shooters.Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2024
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The plot of this discovery only thickened upon noticing how bizarrely muscular these dinosaurs’ arms were, as well as their brawny hips.Scott Travers, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
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The original is still the masterpiece, a film that truly rewrote the rules for the genre, shifting it more to everyman characters like Willis and away from muscular stars like Sly and Ah-nuld.Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
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There are machines with brawny German beer maids, flawless Chinese geishas, Manchu emperors on golden buffalo.Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2024
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Their warm and wet climates couldn’t produce the brawny horses needed for their cavalries.David Chaffetz, Fortune Asia, 15 Dec. 2024
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“Mesomorphic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mesomorphic. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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