Synonyms for brawn
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1. brawn

   Synonyms:
   body, brute force, material substance, matter

   Antonyms:
   brain, consciousness, disposition, instinct, intellect, intelligence, mind, reason, reason, sense, soul, spirit, thought, understanding

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1. brawn, brawniness, muscle, muscularity, sinew, heftinessnoun

   possessing muscular strength

   Synonyms:
   vigor, musculus, muscularity, massiveness, tendon, energy, heftiness, vim, ponderosity, ponderousness, muscle, muscleman, brawniness, heft, sinew, muscular tissue, vigour

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1. List of paraphrases for "brawn":

   muscle

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1. Benjamin Hooks:

   There are a lot of ways an oppressed people can rise. One way to rise is to study, to be smarter than your oppressor. The concept of rising against oppression through physical contact is stupid and self-defeating. It exalts brawn over brain. And the most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.

2. Peter F. Drucker, People and Performance:

   Management" means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force. . .

3. Mark Webber:

   Red Bull is like a Formula Three team compared to Ferrari. With Ferrari there's an article every day in the Gazzetta dello Sport. It's a religion there and being a driver is not easy, if you look at when Ferrari executed the best, we go back to when it was Ross (Brawn) and Jean (Todt).

4. Mark Webber:

   If you look at when Ferrari executed the best, we go back to when it was Ross (Brawn) and Jean (Todt), they had a big mix of culture and I think that's still a bit of a missing link.

5. Peter Drucker:

   Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.