stiffening

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IPF is a chronic, progressive lung disease characterized by irreversible scarring and stiffening of lung tissue.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

The inquest was told rigor mortis - the stiffening of the body after death - had set in.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

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

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