stiffening

Example Sentences

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It’s hard to imagine a greater accomplishment than to achieve peace while stiffening the sinews of deterrence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

No wonder OpenAI’s Sam Altman issued a “code red” alert to employees urging them to step up the pace of chatbot development in the face of stiffening competition from the likes of Google’s Gemini.

From Barron's • Dec. 3, 2025

He said his parents also told him their child had been unwell the night before he was brought to hospital and had been displaying abnormal movements including shaking and stiffening of his limbs.

From BBC • Oct. 4, 2024

It smashed 300-pound spheres swinging on a pendulum into a fuselage panel to deliberately damage it, causing one of the stiffening rods to break, then repeatedly applied loads representative of those in flight 40,000 times.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2024

I winced to picture them sewing the coarse material under a coal-oil lamp with fingers stiffening from the day’s work.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou