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The stock market will face stiff headwinds over the next 12 months, according to an obscure indicator with an enviable track record.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

The company is facing stiff competition from homegrown brands such as Luckin Coffee.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

But business leaders have grown impatient with the slow pace of reforms as German companies have battled high energy prices, US tariffs and stiff Chinese competition, particularly in Germany's renowned automotive sector.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

Smaller stocks will face stiff headwinds over the next four years.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

I was still sitting there like a marble statue of Distressa, Patron Saint of Dread and Dumbfoundedness: mouth and eyes wide open, arms and legs sticking out, and everything as stiff as a board.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

The pants, made from stiffer denim, proved to be slightly easier, and the robot finished the task in a little over a minute.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

It said stiffer competition from the existing-home market was one factor behind the declines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Minimum levels for penalties would be raised and stiffer fines would be imposed for repeat offenders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Manchester United will experience far stiffer tests of their Champions League credentials than Sabah FK gave them at Old Trafford.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

I tried brushing it down, but all it did was crackle and stand even stiffer.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

Here’s where the market could face the stiffest test.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

In a culture of aggregation and AI summary, the stiffest original thinking still feels as supple as a tone poem, and genuine intellectual ambition akin to a secular miracle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

It turned out that some of the stiffest competition faced by the New Britain plant came from within Stanley itself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

Her body curled too; as the weeks turned to months, she shrank into herself like the stiffest of fetuses, shrivelling, her skin sallow and waxy.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

"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

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

Iceland has achieved the holy grail for working stiffs: same pay for shorter hours.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2021

"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

Eddie said, “And Mr. C. tells them if we aren’t the best band they’d ever had then they don’t have to pay. We haven’t been stiffed yet.”

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis

Any reform plan from a committee would still require lawmakers to cast a difficult vote exposing them to charges of overtaxing working Americans or stiffing retirees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

“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

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

From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2022

“They are just stiffing everyone,” said Jayson Woodbridge, a California winemaker who had a reservation for a weeklong stay at the hotel to attend his daughter’s graduation in the area.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2022

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

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls