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Recent Examples of stiffness
According to the National Organization for Rare Disorders, the condition is a rare genetic disorder characterized by abnormalities of the skeletal muscles, including weakness and stiffness, abnormal bone development and joints that become fixed in bent or extended positions.
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Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
As your shoulders slump, your head shifts forward, creating neck pain and stiffness.
—Dana Santas, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
Resistance Training Light resistance training helps build muscle, improve metabolism, and reduce arterial stiffness over time, according to Lander.
—Sherri Gordon, Health, 2 Oct. 2025
Symptoms of the more serious illness include high fever, headache, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness, vision loss, numbness and paralysis, according to the CDC.
—Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025
When overstressed, the tendon can become inflamed, resulting in pain, stiffness and weakness.
—Harlan Selesnick, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
Pattern describes it as giving life to 3B–4C textures without stiffness.
—Malia Griggs, Glamour, 30 Sep. 2025
Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
—City News Service, Oc Register, 27 Sep. 2025
This model helped ensure the skin would accurately replicate variations in stretchiness, stiffness, and strength, depending on where it is found on the body.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2025
Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
As your shoulders slump, your head shifts forward, creating neck pain and stiffness.
—Dana Santas, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
Resistance Training Light resistance training helps build muscle, improve metabolism, and reduce arterial stiffness over time, according to Lander.
—Sherri Gordon, Health, 2 Oct. 2025
Symptoms of the more serious illness include high fever, headache, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness, vision loss, numbness and paralysis, according to the CDC.
—Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025
When overstressed, the tendon can become inflamed, resulting in pain, stiffness and weakness.
—Harlan Selesnick, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
Pattern describes it as giving life to 3B–4C textures without stiffness.
—Malia Griggs, Glamour, 30 Sep. 2025
Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
—City News Service, Oc Register, 27 Sep. 2025
This model helped ensure the skin would accurately replicate variations in stretchiness, stiffness, and strength, depending on where it is found on the body.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stiffness
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Fortunately, the bear’s indifference is aided in part by responsible wildlife viewing.—
Susan Portnoy,
AFAR Media,
3 Oct. 2025
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In public, Mark Kerr speaks amiably about his trainer turned rival and even takes him along for a rowdy impromptu meet-and-greet, but the lack of friction comes off less as a sign of his unflappability than of Safdie’s indifference to probing a friendship beyond buddy-comedy depth.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 Sep. 2025
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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
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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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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
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Minerals like calcium and magnesium can cling to the surface over time, especially in areas with high water hardness.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
23 Sep. 2025
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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
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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 8 Oct. 2025.
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