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So how do we account for the sudden stoutness?

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2022

It involves door-locking, being a little quieter than you might otherwise be, and stoutness in the face of withering teenage disdain.

From Slate • Jul. 29, 2020

For Bayless, Tebow represented all-American wholesomeness and stoutness of heart, and also clutch performance.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 18, 2018

But Braly says that extra stoutness “does not feel boardy,” with a feel and bend profile modeled after the company’s original KBS Tour shaft, including elongated step patterns to provide more stability in the shaft.

From Golf Digest • May 24, 2017

Her stoop, her stoutness, her shuffling gait all gave an impression of extreme age.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling