as in to ossify
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Recent Examples of calcify
But its sensibilities had seemed to calcify in recent years.
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Rachel Corbett, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2025
The cortex, in the center, is also made of keratin, but is more flexible because it is not calcified.
—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
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Rachel Corbett, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2025
The cortex, in the center, is also made of keratin, but is more flexible because it is not calcified.
—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
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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
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There are a whole lot of YouTube comments crystallizing the phrase, however, just as Fielder predicted (and intended).—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
28 May 2025
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What can other members of the leadership team do to crystallize the CEO’s vision?—
Hugo Farinha,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2025
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Nearly every day brings a fresh breach of what were once thought to be the rules, moves that have thrilled his insurgent supporters and petrified his nervous opponents.—
Peter Baker,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 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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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 3 Jun. 2025.
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