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Recent Examples of calcify
Over the course of the shift, his body seems to calcify with tension, as though every successive hour in the hospital adds weight.
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Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2026
The liberal impulse — insistence that injustice isn’t cured by patience, willingness to reform systems that calcify into maladministration — can keep institutions from becoming the archives of old hierarchies.
—Robert T.f. Downes, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2026
That's where disparate power dynamics can calcify.
—Annie Nova, CNBC, 8 Nov. 2025
Stories like the closest, about inglorious grunt work and uncommon sacrifice, are everywhere in the NFL; tales that calcify with each retelling until the truth of this coach or that executive’s rise becomes inseparable from myth.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 7 Aug. 2025
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Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2026
The liberal impulse — insistence that injustice isn’t cured by patience, willingness to reform systems that calcify into maladministration — can keep institutions from becoming the archives of old hierarchies.
—Robert T.f. Downes, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2026
That's where disparate power dynamics can calcify.
—Annie Nova, CNBC, 8 Nov. 2025
Stories like the closest, about inglorious grunt work and uncommon sacrifice, are everywhere in the NFL; tales that calcify with each retelling until the truth of this coach or that executive’s rise becomes inseparable from myth.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 7 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calcify
Verb
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The problem in our politics is the fixed thinking and stubbornness that ossify our bias.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
25 Apr. 2026
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The positions of both the U.S. government and Iran have ossified since May 8, 2018 – the date when the first Trump administration withdrew the United States from the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal.—
Nina Srinivasan Rathbun,
The Conversation,
17 Feb. 2026
Verb
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The mixture will become syrupy, then crystallize into a white coating.—
Kelly McCarthy,
ABC News,
26 May 2026
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During the early ’70s, the house experienced a meteoric rise, and Lagerfeld helped crystalize its soft, romantic spirit, with his American entourage encouraging youthful, glamorous and cheeky pop touches.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
26 May 2026
Verb
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The first film follows a group of French high-school students who travel to Naples on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
20 May 2026
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Johansson plays her with a tough edge to match her Queens accent, but Hester is clearly petrified by this perfect storm of ugly events.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2026
Verb
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As most of the scientific books tell us, coagulating protein at lower temperatures produces more tender clumps; adding a little water or cream makes an omelet tenderer still.—
Jeffrey Steingarten,
Vogue,
5 Apr. 2026
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Two dented blue bottles of Cuajo Titanium, a liquid coagulating enzyme used to curdle milk, remained on a wooden table, caked in mud.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Calcify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calcify. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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