as in to ossify
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Recent Examples of calcify
The cortex, in the center, is also made of keratin, but is more flexible because it is not calcified.
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Marie Bladt, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2025
Wokeness Is Not to Blame for Trump: How a misdiagnosis of the 2024 election has calcified into self-defeating conventional wisdom.
—Cate Martel, The Hill, 18 Feb. 2025
This is a call to recognize and drain two swamps that limit innovation, calcify our politics and undermine the West’s strategic position.
—Wal Van Lierop, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
If developments are left to follow their course, a de facto separation appears likely to calcify.
—Jason Pack, Foreign Affairs, 10 Jan. 2017
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Marie Bladt, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2025
Wokeness Is Not to Blame for Trump: How a misdiagnosis of the 2024 election has calcified into self-defeating conventional wisdom.
—Cate Martel, The Hill, 18 Feb. 2025
This is a call to recognize and drain two swamps that limit innovation, calcify our politics and undermine the West’s strategic position.
—Wal Van Lierop, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
If developments are left to follow their course, a de facto separation appears likely to calcify.
—Jason Pack, Foreign Affairs, 10 Jan. 2017
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calcify
Verb
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His worldview has ossified, and there is perhaps understandably a sense that his country has left him behind.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
2 May 2025
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The final age is the modern one, with the world now mostly settled and divided up, its borders more sharply defined and ossified.—
Yussef Cole,
New York Times,
8 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Ice cream and frozen treats: Since invert sugar crystallizes more slowly and less frequently than other sugars, it is widely used in frozen treats like ice cream.—
Anna Giorgi,
Verywell Health,
8 May 2025
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Many enduring genres crystallized in the mid-thirties—the screwball comedy, the grand-scale action adventure, big-boned literary adaptations, the modern musical (a template exemplified by the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers)—and all were illuminated and endorsed by Sennwald.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
7 May 2025
Verb
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He was petrified by the thought of dying of cancer or some other disease whose senselessness disgusted him.—
Ian Buruma,
The New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2025
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Medusa was known in ancient Greece for petrifying anyone who dared to look her in the eye, and has been seen as a personification of madness.—
Sarah Belmont,
ARTnews.com,
17 Dec. 2024
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Within hours the pool would coagulate into electric-blue slush, like a gas station Slurpee.—
Alec Luhn,
Scientific American,
20 May 2025
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That familiar lump of expectation coagulated in my stomach and throat.—
Thomas Weddle,
Outdoor Life,
17 Apr. 2025
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“Calcify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calcify. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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