synergistic muscles

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Muscles having similar and mutually helpful functions or actions.

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Think of him as a kind of Cecil Rhodes in a loincloth and with bulging muscles.
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The security guard wears a black suit and black V-neck that hardly contain his bulging muscles.
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For the entire duration of the hours I spent inside San Pedro I noticed my abdominal muscles remained perpetually clenched.
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Eyes red and prison muscles bulging, a tattooed white man behind me jumped to his feet from a crouch and swatted me aside.
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The emphasis is on fresh faces and tensed bodies and muscles, rather than come-to-bed eyes, pouting, and bulges down below.
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The women at once rose and began to shake out their draperies and relax their muscles.
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The ability to sustain the tone for a long time will increase, and with it the power of the muscles exercised.
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His ear, his brain, his muscles take on a new joyous activity, and the tide of life rises higher.
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There was a vicious aching in his nerves, his muscles were flaccid and unstrung; a numbness was in his brain as well.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
In the whole of anatomy there is no task so difficult as that of learning the precise attachments of the muscles of the back.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)