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    She enjoys robust health.
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    the robust flavor of fresh-brewed coffee
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    a robust claret (wine)
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    Any game theory simulation of society is more robust if you include a criminal element.†  (source)
    robust = strong
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    "So that Peverell bloke who's buried in Godric's Hollow," he said hastily, trying to sound robustly sane, "you don't know anything about him, then?"†  (source)
    robustly = in a strong manner
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    Peeta looks healthy to the point of robustness.†  (source)
    robustness = strength
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Two days after McCandless set up camp beside Lake Mead, an unusually robust wall of thunderheads reared up in the afternoon sky, and it began to rain, very hard, over much of the Detrital Valley.†  (source)
    robust = strong
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    The raft sank lower and pitched and rolled, the tips of the oars dipping underwater, but it floated robustly.†  (source)
    robustly = in a strong manner
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    We banded ourselves together, some boldly, some in jest and some almost in fear: and of the number of these latter, the reluctant Indians who were afraid to seem studious or lacking in robustness, I was one.†  (source)
    robustness = strength
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    The family buttons were to buttons as rubber overshoes were to footgear — stolid, practical buttons, for overcoats and overalls and work shirts, with something robust and even crude about them.†  (source)
    robust = strong
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    "You would have got one eventually," I say robustly.†  (source)
    robustly = in a strong manner
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    Yet they were all so well fed and clean, they all shouted "'Evenin', Georgie!" with such robustness, that they seemed to be cousins, and the strange thing is that the longer one knew the women, the less alike they seemed; while the longer one knew the men, the more alike their bold patterns appeared.†  (source)
    robustness = strength
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    Hillbilly culture at the time (and maybe now) blended a robust sense of honor, devotion to family, and bizarre sexism into a sometimes explosive mix.†  (source)
    robust = strong
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