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The word "brawn" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means "muscular strength", most commonly referring to a man's physical strength. For example, "His brawn enabled him to lift heavy boxes with ease."
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brawn
noun
Strong muscles or lean flesh, especially of the arm, leg or thumb.
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Pepys was fond of very protein-heavy breakfasts, involving the likes of brawn.
"That means we're working with brains, not brawn".
If they did, he believes the entire western region could enjoy a more reliable power supply.Real-time data is, of course, useless without the brains to process it and the brawn to act on it.
They still live off their brawn rather than their brain, and they may be able to live happily with organisational structures that are, as Mr Bryan puts it, "retrofitted with ad hoc and matrix overlays", and that are ill-suited for knowledge workers.
The sort of jobs they were measuring, however, no longer enjoy such a premium in the places where they measured them: less than 10% of today's jobs in America are in manufacturing, and less than 15% of those in Britain.Workers of the western world are now employed largely in service industries, where they are paid for their brain rather than their brawn.
They may well be right.Staging the games is highly important to China's leaders, and not just as a chance to put on display the country's sporting brawn.
Women will thus be better equipped for the new jobs of the 21st century, in which brains count a lot more than brawn.
And athletics' world governing body, worried about the brawn drain from Africa, is now thinking of changing its citizenship rules.
But few jobs require brawn these days: in America 46% of jobs make almost no physical demands on workers, reckons the Urban Institute, a think-tank.
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For now their machines have more brains than brawn though at least they have no penchant for embarrassing partying when the games are over.
THE V12 engine found in the Aston Martin DB9 is notable not just for its brawn it produces 450 horsepower but also for its brain.
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