as in isolating
to deliberately ignore or treat rudely
in his sad and lonely old age, he stiff-armed even once-beloved friends
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Recent Examples of stiff-arming
The next game, stiff-arming guys.
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Sean Joseph Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
27 May 2026
After stiff-arming challengers on the front 9, Cink played free and easy.
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Jay Paris,
Oc Register,
30 Mar. 2026
The 24-song set reeled in an impressive 280,000 equivalent album units, stiff-arming a surging Bad Bunny from pole position.
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Carl Lamarre,
Billboard,
19 Feb. 2026
Indiana kept its circle tight and held its belief tighter, stiff-arming infiltrators and doubters with equal authority.
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Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
20 Jan. 2026
Sean Joseph Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
27 May 2026
After stiff-arming challengers on the front 9, Cink played free and easy.
—
Jay Paris,
Oc Register,
30 Mar. 2026
The 24-song set reeled in an impressive 280,000 equivalent album units, stiff-arming a surging Bad Bunny from pole position.
—
Carl Lamarre,
Billboard,
19 Feb. 2026
Indiana kept its circle tight and held its belief tighter, stiff-arming infiltrators and doubters with equal authority.
—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
20 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stiff-arming
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The core value is in isolating truly new ideas and then testing them rapidly to get accurate customer feedback.
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Eventually, Scott put them in school to refocus on her writing and to avoid isolating them from peers because of their family’s wealth, a close friend told Vogue.
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However, late Wednesday night, council members finalized plans, rejecting a proposal that would've raised the building's height and delayed the opening date.
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As LLMs and autonomous workflows proliferate, human judgment in curating, refining, and rejecting AI output becomes increasingly valuable.
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Over the years, the Oscars have garnered a reputation for snubbing studio tentpoles from consideration in above-the-line categories.
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In all three races, Mamdani rolled the political dice by snubbing powerful establishment Democratic figures and flexing his own electoral muscle.
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While there are dismemberments and other bits of gruesome violence to be found in the film, Badlands is largely aimed at endearing its audience rather than repulsing them.
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The interim agreement to end the Iran war has already reopened the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran effectively closed, cutting the global economy off from significant supplies of oil and natural gas.
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But after the cost-cutting trade of Jonathan Greenard to Philadelphia, the depth chart for the edge rusher spots is thin.
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The wax and sealant not only restores your chrome wheels’ glossy shine but also protects them by actively repelling brake dust, road salt and other debris.
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Lavender Thanks to its strong, aromatic scent, lavender is effective at repelling mosquitoes and flies.
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But in discharging this function, poets are in danger of slighting another imperative, namely, to redress poetry as poetry, to set it up as its own category, an eminence established and a pressure exercised by distinctly linguistic means.
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The subtext to the litigation is Oakley’s personal grievance against Dolan, whom the ex-player has long criticized, in part for slighting him compared to other Knicks legends.
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“Stiff-arming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stiff-arming. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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