stiffness
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Symptoms can include problems with balance, uncontrollable shaking of one’s hands and stiffness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
By adjusting the formulation of GelMA, the researchers produced supporting gels with varying degrees of stiffness.
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
Doctors then looked into her case further and concluded she in fact did not have the autoimmune disease, which can cause muscle stiffness and problems with walking and talking.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
He pointed toward the bomb shelter and the sharpness in his voice and the stiffness of his jabbing pointer finger told me he meant business.
From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos
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
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
The youthful works of genius are generally the best, their very crudities and stiffnesses adorable.
From The Altar Fire by Arthur Christopher Benson
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
He seems to have loved the very stiffnesses of the form in which he worked.
From Euripedes and His Age by Gilbert Murray
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