brute
noun
a nonhuman creature; beast.
brutes
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pluralof brute.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Except from behind the windshield, where he views the world as teeming with schemers and brutes, acting on all manner of Machiavellian impulses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2025
But it made a few of the par 4s, such as the 490-yard first and the 465-yard fifth, play like brutes.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
Then ChatGPT came online, and suddenly the fear was of something smarter rather than stronger — malevolent bots rather than metallic brutes.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2023
Those Black people who survived the living hell of the Middle Passage and then centuries of enslavement and brutalization were not an undifferentiated mass of brutes as conceptualized by the white popular imagination.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2023
The guard nodded in the language of brutes, and Rasseem passed.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
