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Byrnes and his collaborators have found that the thin patagium is rich in muscles, and some parts are stiffer than others.

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Maps is another place where Apple’s got some pretty stiff competition from Google.

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Colman keeps a stiff upper lip, even as the role begins to shift out from under her.

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By this April, SoftBank admitted that it was on track to take stiff losses from its Vision Fund portfolio, which, when combined with other investing losses, pushed the company into a rare loss for the year.

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There’s an old Polish woman, for instance, whose stiff, territorial energy I can feel whenever I show up to Gaston Park the day after a rain.

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The slices will be stiff, so take your time, using your hands to tuck a little butter into each slice and a butter knife, if necessary, to push the butter down between the slices.

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Carbon tonearms have long been the norm for high-end turntables because they’re stiff and light, which gives a pure sound to records, but they’re generally expensive.

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Juries, which have less flexibility than judges in crafting sentences, tend to hand out stiffer punishments than those called for by the guidelines.

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If you practice Stoicism, you are just not inclined toward sporting a stiff upper lip.

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The proposition would impose stiffer fines on companies that break certain data privacy rules and create a new state agency that along with California’s Justice Department will enforce the state’s consumer privacy laws.

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