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• More rigid
• Like overtime periods vis-à-vis regulation play
• More constricted
• With business faltering, should be more dogged
• Stronger
• Stiffer
• Golfer welcomes hit leaving one closer
• Grind the grit, so more dense
• More close-fitting
• More likely to escalate
• Meaner
• Less yielding, as a mattress
• More strictly controlled near royal woman
• Not as flabby
• Meaner pugilist using wrong side of fist