as in to ossify
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Recent Examples of calcify
This is a call to recognize and drain two swamps that limit innovation, calcify our politics and undermine the West’s strategic position.
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Wal Van Lierop, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Diving Deep into the Mouth's Microbial Dark Matter The Causes of Tonsil Stones
Tonsil stones form when your tonsils, which are part of your body’s lymphatic system, trap debris in their crevices, which then calcifies.
—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
The nation’s political divides might just be too old, and too calcified, to keep pace—which, for once, might be to the benefit of the American people.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
Things that are stylish and clever the first time are calcified by the fourth episode.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024
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Wal Van Lierop, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Diving Deep into the Mouth's Microbial Dark Matter The Causes of Tonsil Stones
Tonsil stones form when your tonsils, which are part of your body’s lymphatic system, trap debris in their crevices, which then calcifies.
—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
The nation’s political divides might just be too old, and too calcified, to keep pace—which, for once, might be to the benefit of the American people.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
Things that are stylish and clever the first time are calcified by the fourth episode.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calcify
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The stereotypes of retirement had not yet ossified: AARP Nation was a new territory, undiscovered if not fertile, and Jansson explored it in Sun City (New York Review Books, $16.95), now reissued in Thomas Teal’s 1976 translation.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harper's Magazine,
23 Sep. 2024
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Once the answers become ossified, the questions become rhetorical, and the education ceases to cultivate the child’s capacities.—
Ray Ravaglia,
Forbes,
1 Oct. 2024
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The panel tries in vain to figure out why conservative critics who objected to Lamar largely overlooked Batiste’s more explicit statement. Conservatives who seemed outraged by the very existence of Lamar’s performance crystallized America’s cultural divide.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
11 Feb. 2025
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That confidence crystallized throughout the film’s regional festival run in 2023, when Cheslik and his co-writer/leading man Ryland Brickson Cole Tews began bringing props to screenings.—
Cory Stillman,
IndieWire,
10 Feb. 2025
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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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Still, blood’s habit of coagulating, so useful in the body, proved a challenge outside of it: within a few minutes of beginning a transfusion, clots would gum up the needles and tubes, seriously limiting the quantity of blood that could be moved from person to person.—
Nicola Twilley,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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Her husband’s samples had arrived there coagulated and useless.—
John Carreyrou,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Calcify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calcify. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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