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- adjective
comparative form ofstocky : morestocky
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For those of you unfamiliar, this is not the old turkey vulture or buzzard that is commonly found, this is a slightly smaller, stockier bird built more like a raven or a raptor.
New Weekly Contest: Best Hunting Story Wins a Leatherman 2009
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For those of you unfamiliar, this is not the old turkey vulture or buzzard that is commonly found, this is a slightly smaller, stockier bird built more like a raven or a raptor.
New Weekly Contest: Best Hunting Story Wins a Leatherman 2009
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The black vulture (Coragyps atratus) is a shorter, stockier bird (without any red on its head) that is nevertheless heavier than the turkey vulture and dominant to it when competing for a carcass.
Did you know? Mexico's vultures have very different eating habits. 2009
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They were about three feet tall, with a proportionately stockier body than their terrestrial namesakes.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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The black vulture (Coragyps atratus) is a shorter, stockier bird (without any red on its head) that is nevertheless heavier than the turkey vulture and dominant to it when competing for a carcass.
Did you know? Mexico's vultures have very different eating habits. 2009
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The stockier Brown, on the other hand, spoke with more ominous tones.
Elliot Worsell: UFC's Jones and Evans: Good Friends, Better Enemies Elliot Worsell 2011
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They were stockier than Homo sapiens and had thicker bones and protruding foreheads.
Anthropologists adopt a more favorable view of Neanderthals Marc Kaufman 2010
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They were stockier than Homo sapiens and had thicker bones and protruding foreheads.
Anthropologists adopt a more favorable view of Neanderthals Marc Kaufman 2010
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The stockier Brown, on the other hand, spoke with more ominous tones.
Elliot Worsell: UFC's Jones and Evans: Good Friends, Better Enemies Elliot Worsell 2011
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Doesn't Rice remind you of a stockier version of Joe Morris?
Sunday, Sunday grrm 2010
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