as in to ossify
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Recent Examples of calcify
His muscles shrunk after the ejections, and will calcify, leading to muscle knotting in his back.
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Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 24 May 2025
American film critics were beginning to adopt a more adversarial philosophy, influenced by the auteur theory calcified in Cahiers du cinéma magazine.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 24 Apr. 2025
Bill’s smarm has calcified into a kind of mad obsession; Hal is a starkly lonely and cowardly man.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2025
Even if the animosity has historically calcified, this is still a banger of a series.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
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Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 24 May 2025
American film critics were beginning to adopt a more adversarial philosophy, influenced by the auteur theory calcified in Cahiers du cinéma magazine.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 24 Apr. 2025
Bill’s smarm has calcified into a kind of mad obsession; Hal is a starkly lonely and cowardly man.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2025
Even if the animosity has historically calcified, this is still a banger of a series.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
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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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The scene proper didn’t really crystallize until the mid-2010s, when Lofi Girl and other online hotspots cropped up.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
2 July 2025
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Parlaying a performance like Wednesday’s into something more sustainable would crystallize the club’s focus toward the July 31 trade deadline.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
11 June 2025
Verb
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So don’t go around being petrified of having your esophagus rupture someday.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
28 June 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
Verb
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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 15 Jul. 2025.
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