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For their part, the mass-market carmaker's executives say they are trying to adapt to the "reality" of stiff global competition.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

Over time, regular resistance training can help lower blood pressure and keep arteries flexible rather than stiff, which protects against cardiovascular disease.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

The internet and cable television provider has lost thousands of customers in recent years as it faces stiff competition offering broadband internet packages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

In São Paulo, German manufacturer Harting, which produces heavy-duty industrial connectors, is running into stiff competition from Chinese manufacturers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

The last of the caravan jostled past, revealing the stiff, blind donkey I had seen earlier sleeping beside Samir, and a pack mule, loitering nearby.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Over two days, three judges at the Court of Appeal in Melbourne will hear two appeals: Patterson's attempt to overturn her conviction and the prosecution's demand for a stiffer sentence.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

The politicians also want to allow for stiffer fines against companies following a disaster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Ice makes the surrounding material stiffer, allowing vibrations to travel two to three times faster than they do through dry soil.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026

"A lot of these layers are laminated together to create quite a stiff structure. Often stiffer than the leather balls that were very simple and just one piece of leather."

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

Ewell’s fight in the north was stiffer, but down here the sound was softened; the wind was in the south, blowing toward the battle, blowing up between the lines.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

She had offers from England, Mexico and the United States, with sources close to the player stating Boston Legacy provided the stiffest competition.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

His penalty of life imprisonment without parole was the stiffest in New Zealand history.

From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026

The car was so fast for so much of the season that the stiffest competition its drivers faced was from each other.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025

As in other categories, the stiffest competition comes from ‘Severance’: Adam Scott, so compelling as the emotionally conflicted Mark S. His conversation with his ‘outie’ self was a knockout.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025

Her body curled too; as the weeks turned to months, she shrank into herself like the stiffest of fetuses, shrivelling, her skin sallow and waxy.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

He repeatedly stiffs contractors and vendors and his namesake company was convicted of tax fraud just last month.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2022

Let’s say they’re stiffs and they’re stupid people, and they say, ‘Well, we really have no choice.’

From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2022

Iceland has achieved the holy grail for working stiffs: same pay for shorter hours.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2021

It is about conversation and gossip, a hangout for nosy retirees and chatty working stiffs.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2020

"Just between ourselves, Blore, and taking into account that we'll probably both be a couple of stiffs before another day is out, you did indulge in that spot of perjury, I suppose?"

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

The military and House staffers get stiffed next week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

Delvey says the monitor, imposed after she faked wire transfers, defrauded New York’s elite, and stiffed hotels and restaurants to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, shouldn’t hinder her performance too much.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2024

DuBon had been stiffed on a painting job a few weeks earlier — an employer simply refused to pay — and started going to Casa Latina instead of Home Depot.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024

Thousands of private vendors who supplied the state with goods and services got stiffed after July 1.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

The biggest event Suffolk had seen in years was a traveling sideshow that came through town on the railroad tracks, with a stiffed whale in a boxcar.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

Any reform plan from a committee would still require lawmakers to cast a difficult vote exposing them to charges of overtaxing working Americans or stiffing retirees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

“Under Musk’s control, Twitter has become a scofflaw, stiffing employees, landlords, vendors, and others,” says the lawsuit, filed in federal court in the Northern District of California.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

All the while, Zuberi maximized his personal gains by cheating his foreign clients, stiffing the lobbyists he hired and evading taxes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2021

One of them, you might say, was Hollywood’s most notorious tightwad, staving off the terror of poverty by stiffing servants and handing houseguests itemized bills.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2020

“If you’re not getting commissions, Becker’s stiffing you.”

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls