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Examples of rigid in a Sentence
Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
His first tour with the E Street Band since 2017 began last February in Tampa, Fl., with fans still grumbling over a dynamic ticket pricing fiasco, and was criticized because the set lists were too rigid compared to years past.
—Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 5 Apr. 2024
Oppenheimer and Barbie proved last year that the parameters around the Oscar race are less rigid, and that early-season releases have just as much (if not a better) standing in the hunt for Academy Awards as those that drop in November and December.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2024
Dylan’s setlist over the past few months has been pretty rigid, and the focus remains tunes from 2020’s Rough and Rowdy Ways.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2024
This is not a trivial problem for robots, though, because interactions between point contacts that are rigid (like how most robotics manipulators handle the world) are fairly well understood.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2024
However, this type of caulk tends to be rigid and difficult to work with and clean up.
—Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Mar. 2024
Such rigid systems can fail for tasks with wide variability, said Carri Chan, a Columbia Business School professor who researches health-care management and operations.
—Christopher Rowland, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
As public policy experts tell it, Bengaluru and the broader state of Karnataka have been too slow to plan for growth, too divided across agencies and too rigid in their reliance on pumping water uphill from reservoirs along the Kaveri River more than 50 miles away.
—Damien Cave Atul Loke, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024
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Word History
Middle English rigide, from Latin rigidus, from rigēre to be stiff
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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“Rigid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rigid. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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rigid
adjective
from Latin rigidus, "rigid," from rigēre "to be stiff" — related to rigor mortis
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rigid
adjective
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