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Recent Examples of stiffness
The unique structure helps the LCEs resist stretching, giving them exceptional stiffness without losing flexibility.
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2025
Athletes often use infrared saunas post-workout to recover from sore muscles and stiffness.
—Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 20 Oct. 2025
There are five levels of compression that push heat (or cold) deeper into your tissue, helping to relieve pain and stiffness.
—Christopher Murray
May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
Short-term symptoms include high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea.
—News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
Symptoms of bone contusions from this mechanism of injury include pain in the front of the knee, stiffness and swelling.
—Harlan Selesnick, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
Jordan Harris, who made his Bruins debut on Saturday, is a smaller defenseman, better designed for puck movement than D-zone stiffness.
—Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
So then your pastry cream is the same stiffness.
—Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 Oct. 2025
By the end of that time, participants’ VO2 max had improved and their cardiac stiffness—a major risk factor for cardiovascular events—was down.
—Caroline Tien, SELF, 8 Oct. 2025
Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2025
Athletes often use infrared saunas post-workout to recover from sore muscles and stiffness.
—Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 20 Oct. 2025
There are five levels of compression that push heat (or cold) deeper into your tissue, helping to relieve pain and stiffness.
—Christopher Murray
May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
Short-term symptoms include high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea.
—News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
Symptoms of bone contusions from this mechanism of injury include pain in the front of the knee, stiffness and swelling.
—Harlan Selesnick, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
Jordan Harris, who made his Bruins debut on Saturday, is a smaller defenseman, better designed for puck movement than D-zone stiffness.
—Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
So then your pastry cream is the same stiffness.
—Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 Oct. 2025
By the end of that time, participants’ VO2 max had improved and their cardiac stiffness—a major risk factor for cardiovascular events—was down.
—Caroline Tien, SELF, 8 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stiffness
Noun
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The amendment changes the theory of the case from reckless indifference to intentional misconduct, according to the family’s lawyers, which could raise the damages awarded to the family.—
Nikita Ostrovsky,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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The risk of reverting to a political reality of indifference to occupation and permanent conflict is too great.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Whatever the reason, Maxwell’s strength and the shark’s apparent unconcern put one of Maxwell’s friends in danger.—
Donald Millus,
Outdoor Life,
3 July 2025
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But the other pole, blithe unconcern, carries its own dangers.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
Noun
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But then there is that deadness that enters into the closing chapters, which might as easily be called inexorability.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
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Li, a writer whose stories are compressed and deceptively simple, spoke with humor and a certain hardness, perhaps born of the clarity of unimaginable loss.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Oct. 2025
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Finally, impact strength assesses a material’s ability to absorb sudden shocks without shattering, highlighting that the hardness alone doesn’t always mean toughness.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Throughout many revealing conversations, the braggadocious zeal of Poseidon and Zeus, the sexy aloofness of Aphrodite and Dionysus, and the sniveling bitchery of Hermes and Hypnos were endearing, but all gave way to flawed people who grew deeply over time.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
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Reached by phone, the father comes off as a cold, uncaring man, and Pacino portrays him with chilling aloofness.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Their works push back against the coldness of technology, asserting presence, autonomy, and creative resistance.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
24 Sep. 2025
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Thematically, this episode is awash in the color blue itself, which many fans interpret as symbolizing coldness and detachment from the music industry.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Stiffness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stiffness. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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