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
If developments are left to follow their course, a de facto separation appears likely to calcify.
—Jason Pack, Foreign Affairs, 10 Jan. 2017
There was a layer of gravel underfoot, some parts of the aqueduct’s sides were calcified, and slender white stalactites hung in clusters from above, but the superb Roman engineering was entirely intact.
—Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
While cartilage and bone are both connective tissue, the extracellular matrix these cells are embedded in is much thinner and softer in cartilage, while in bone, that matrix is calcified and hard.
—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2025
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Wal Van Lierop, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
If developments are left to follow their course, a de facto separation appears likely to calcify.
—Jason Pack, Foreign Affairs, 10 Jan. 2017
There was a layer of gravel underfoot, some parts of the aqueduct’s sides were calcified, and slender white stalactites hung in clusters from above, but the superb Roman engineering was entirely intact.
—Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
While cartilage and bone are both connective tissue, the extracellular matrix these cells are embedded in is much thinner and softer in cartilage, while in bone, that matrix is calcified and hard.
—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calcify
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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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The show’s title—partly inspired by Elizabeth Alexander’s poetry collection of the same name—crystallizes that intention.—
Juliana Ukiomogbe,
Vogue,
16 Apr. 2025
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That moment is crystallized for him in episode 15, based on the events from episode 12 on, the mass-casualty event.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
11 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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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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That familiar lump of expectation coagulated in my stomach and throat.—
Thomas Weddle,
Outdoor Life,
17 Apr. 2025
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But there was another possible explanation the company didn’t discuss: Blood could coagulate inside the filter if the dialysis machine’s flow rate was set too low.—
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 30 Apr. 2025.
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