: sclerosis sense 1
hardening of the arteries
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Vitaly, a nuclear physicist and champion in hardening, makes his living as a bricklayer and lives in poverty.
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
The 2024 survey revealed an especially sharp hardening of sentiment from 2023.
—Lynn Kuok, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2024
Everywhere, escalating division and strife and a hardening of the belief that the way forward lay not in communal problem-solving but in selfishness, demagoguery, and violence.
—Sigrid Nunez, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2024
Even simple lift-and-shift migration without refactoring or proper governance or infrastructure hardening can lead to untethered spend, insecure and noncompliant workloads, and the risk of potential security breaches.
—Forrester, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
The 2024 survey revealed an especially sharp hardening of sentiment from 2023.
—Lynn Kuok, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2024
Everywhere, escalating division and strife and a hardening of the belief that the way forward lay not in communal problem-solving but in selfishness, demagoguery, and violence.
—Sigrid Nunez, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2024
Even simple lift-and-shift migration without refactoring or proper governance or infrastructure hardening can lead to untethered spend, insecure and noncompliant workloads, and the risk of potential security breaches.
—Forrester, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
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hardening
noun
hard·en·ing
ˈhärd-niŋ, -ᵊn-iŋ 
: sclerosis sense 1
hardening of the arteries
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