BRUTE FORCE Definition & Meaning

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Also, brute strength . Savage violence, unreasoning strength, as in We hope that reason will triumph over brute force . Although this expression is also used literally to mean exceptional physical power, the figurative sense reflects the origin for brute , which comes from Latin brutus , for 鈥渉eavy, stupid, unreasoning.鈥� [First half of 1700s]

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The model, which aimed to simulate the brute force of a dinosaur bite, sits just outside of Blackley鈥檚 doorless personal office.

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In an aptly titled Associated Press news story 鈥淭rump moves with light speed and brute force in shaking the core of what America has been鈥�, Calvin Woodward recounts the last six weeks:

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President Donald Trump is moving with light speed and brute force to break the existing order and reshape America at home and abroad.

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Could there be a more emphatic conflation of symbolic maleness and brute force?

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