as in to crystallize
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Each chapter offers guidance to crystallize an athlete’s focus, creating the type of confident calmness that Citron has been seeking her entire career.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025 -
In response, the Trump administration has been striking a different tone this time around – one crystallized on Sunday by Mr. Trump’s second-in-command.—
Henry Gass,
The Christian Science Monitor,
11 Feb. 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
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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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Instead, director Patrick Marber’s revival comes to Broadway at a time when these social ails have calcified and the art of the deal determines executive orders.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2025
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Anti-Western sentiment in West Africa eventually calcified into official pro-Russia policies.—
Jeffrey Gettleman,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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After a second quarter defensive letdown, the Heat stiffened against a team that leads the league in points per 100 possessions, at 122.4.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
6 Mar. 2025
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Exercise Too much sitting can cause muscles to stiffen, and moving around more can help ease aches and pains.—
Tom Gavin,
EverydayHealth.com,
24 Feb. 2025
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Some three-dimensional metallic roses grew on their shiny reflective surfaces, with an important symbolism that served as a fit rouge for the entire collection: as fragile objects suddenly petrified, their hardened fragility was the designer’s own.—
Giorgia Feroldi,
Vogue,
1 Mar. 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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Hope needs to find hope and coagulate into a giant hope.—
Steven Zeitchik,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Mar. 2025
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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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The plot continues to thicken as March 30 marks the beginning of Neptune’s journey through Aries after transiting in Pisces since 2011.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
20 Mar. 2025
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Twists On Tradition Throughout the bushwacker’s history, different places have put their own spin on the ingredient list, but the drink usually contains some combo of rum, coffee liqueur, crème de cacao, amaretto and coconut cream, thickened with milk, half-and-half or ice cream.—
Jennifer Stewart Kornegay,
Southern Living,
19 Mar. 2025
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