In addition to the space-age applications, there’s a more prosaic vision of a smoother future—where biologically-based strength, elasticity, and toughness make spider silk an extremely attractive alternative to man-made fibers like rayon.
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Its strength and toughness outperform synthetic counterparts.
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The company says that makes the screen’s toughness comparable to its burly ThinkPad laptops.
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By mustering your mental toughness, you can tolerate hard conditions better and do what needs to be done.
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This stripped Tagovailoa of his chance to prove his toughness and skill to NFL teams and created a lot of speculation about his potential draft position in this year’s NFL Draft, set for April 23-25.
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And despite the training and toughness, the man was struggling to keep his family together.
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Right, that toughness was always inside her, like the way she had given up crying.
Female candidates once had to prove their toughness above all and never mention their personal lives.
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Grimes is a smart person who has projected nothing but fear and uncertainty thinly veiled with endless boasts of toughness.
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In this mood, Democrats may care a lot more about toughness and combativeness than about minute gradations of progressiveness.
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The king's men then attempted to cut up the boar, but failed, owing to the toughness of his hide.
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The latter gives steel its toughness, and enables it to resist greater heat without crystallizing and thus losing its temper.
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What fine old days those were, when the toughness of skin matched so wonderfully the stoutness of heart!
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The birch looked tolerably climbable and was amply high; as to toughness, he thought not about it.
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They are not, however, as palatable and differ as to toughness and other physical characteristics.
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toughness
/ (ˈtʌfnɪs) /
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noun
the quality or an instance of being tough
metallurgythe ability of a metal to withstand repeated twisting and bending, measured by the energy in kilojoules needed to break itSee brittleness (def. 2), softness (def. 2)
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