stiffness

Symptoms can include problems with balance, uncontrollable shaking of one’s hands and stiffness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

The progressive neurological condition gradually damages brain cells involved in movement, often causing tremors, muscle stiffness, slowed movement, and difficulties with coordination.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

To overcome this problem, the engineers investigated three characteristics of the gel foundation: its chemical composition, its stiffness, and the dimensions and geometry of the grooves used to organize muscle growth.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Across the U.S., private clubs of all pedigrees—golf, country, city or yacht—are shedding old-money stiffness and rebuilding as multigenerational family playgrounds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

She walks with the grace and stiffness of an old lady, stepping deliberately and carefully across the stony road.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

Increasingly it was more difficult to fight the aches and stiffnesses which tried to keep her in bed in the morning—not that they ever succeeded.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

He seems to have loved the very stiffnesses of the form in which he worked.

From Euripedes and His Age by Gilbert Murray

It blows fogs, foul vapours, joint- stiffnesses, agues, pestilences, over us here,—yes, here!

From The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 4 by George Meredith

And I felt very sorry for Carette, and did not wonder so much now at the little stiffnesses of manner I had noticed in her the last time we met.

From Carette of Sark by John Oxenham

And the muslins and blue ribbons will be wonderful filmy creations, as different from the Early Victorian stiffnesses as anything you can possibly imagine.

From Betty Trevor by Victor Prout