as in stiff
incapable of or highly resistant to bending
stiffened corpses an old-fashioned dress with a stiffened lace collar
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as in strengthened
to make more harsh, uncompromising, or severe
plans to further stiffen the already onerous requirements for admission to the elite military unit
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Adjective
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On Tuesday, the deputy attorney general in the Justice Department issued a memo requiring federal prosecutors to pursue stiffer charges and sentences against a variety of criminal suspects.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
23 Jan. 2025 -
The team discovered that the stiff tissue of a cownose ray’s tail was pockmarked with holes.—
Jack Tamisiea,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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The first direct link between alcohol use and cancer was first established in the late 1980s, and evidence for this link has strengthened over time, according to the report.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
4 Jan. 2025
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Dubai Duty Free also strengthened its senior management team with eight senior managers appointed to key roles, including seven UAE nationals.—
Kevin Rozario,
Forbes,
3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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In his rejection of a rigid empiricism, moreover, Kingsley left room for intuitive and imaginative approaches to nature, and indeed to science, and refused to draw a hard line between human and nonhuman experience, instead viewing all creatures as belonging to a spectrum with no sharp boundaries.—
Ben Woollard,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Jan. 2025
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The starting point for the designs was the house’s Efflorescence Jewel Handle bag with its rigid encrusted handle, whereas previous iterations were based on the Viv’ Choc model.—
Alex Wynne,
WWD,
29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The Razorbacks were also solid at the line, hitting 29 of 34 free throws.—
Chip Souza,
arkansasonline.com,
23 Jan. 2025
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If the Deborah number is greater than or equal to 1, however, they are said to be solid.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
23 Jan. 2025
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