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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

Record car prices, high loan rates, a weaker job market and stiff U.S. tariffs were seen as big obstacles for buyers.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

From the outset, Fedorov -- who never served in the army -- clashed with the military's command and their traditionally stiff approach.

From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026

The aortic valve controls blood leaving the heart, and aortic stenosis develops when this valve becomes thick, stiff, and narrow.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026

I fingered striped suspenders and stiff new overalls, peeked in the pickle barrel, and examined jars of peppermint sticks and jawbreakers.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

AppLovin continues to target more than 30% long-term growth, and didn’t observe weaker demand or stiffer competition, offering encouraging signs, the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

There are more houses on the market than people looking to buy, she explained, which means sellers face stiffer competition, forcing them to lower prices.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

Collagen normally gives tissue structure and strength, but excessive collagen can make a valve thicker and stiffer, changing its shape and movement.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026

Those so-called second-round effects can entrench inflation and require stiffer rate increases to reduce inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

It was just as the gyptian had said: the little craft was stiffer, more responsive, and very much slippier through the water than she’d ever felt before.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

Tarrant's penalty of life imprisonment without parole was the stiffest in New Zealand history.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

Some of the stiffest competition at the Masters happens in the shops.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026

Although the port has drastically slashed diesel exhaust and nitrogen oxides through cleaner fuels and engines in the past two decades, it is now faced with its stiffest challenge to date: adopting zero-emission technology.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024

Prosecutors now want Murdaugh to face the stiffest sentence possible since the plea agreement was breached and serve his federal sentence at the end of any state sentences.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2024

A Welch High School display of plant fossils found in coal mines seemed our stiffest competition.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

"He has the one lawyer who he had to pay in advance because he stiffs everybody," she said on Monday's edition of "The Five," referring to Trump's $3 million payment to defense attorney Chris Kise.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2023

The gorgeous young Ivy Leaguers in his ads seem the epitome of privilege — more privileged, certainly, than the working stiffs actually meant to buy the clothing being pitched.

From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

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

That honor will always go to John Wooden, with his 10 national championships in an era when the tournament contained no stiffs, but only conference champions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2022

"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

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

He has taken away people’s jobs and reportedly stiffed much smaller businesses on payments.

From Slate ● Apr. 23, 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

“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

And the Black content creators who, in a recent Washington Post article, accused the social media company of stiffing them?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2022

It also happened to be a gift to anyone stiffing Uncle Sam.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2022

This Russian-German con artist, born Anna Sorokin, constructed such a convincing illusion out of snobbery and good taste that she succeeded in stiffing luxury hotels and bilking financial institutions for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2022

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

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls