as in to ossify
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Recent Examples of calcify
Schumer started as Senate leader when Trump took office, but with MAGA not yet calcified, Democrats had plenty of opportunities to work across the aisle and deliver high-profile defeats to Trump’s policies.
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Alex J. Rouhandeh, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2025
That's where disparate power dynamics can calcify.
—Annie Nova, CNBC, 8 Nov. 2025
Their anti-Trump entrenchment has calcified into left-wing orthodoxy that’s difficult to unwind.
—Nafees Alam, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 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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Alex J. Rouhandeh, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2025
That's where disparate power dynamics can calcify.
—Annie Nova, CNBC, 8 Nov. 2025
Their anti-Trump entrenchment has calcified into left-wing orthodoxy that’s difficult to unwind.
—Nafees Alam, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 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 world has yet to ossify into routine; reality remains at the consistency of putty.—
Sasha Geffen,
Pitchfork,
21 Jan. 2026
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One of the authorities’ stated aims was the preservation of Bologna’s historic center, the idea being that to preserve was not to ossify but to invigorate, for the benefit of the inhabitants.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The career-defining move crystallized a journey that began a decade prior.—
DeAsia Paige,
AJC.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Schroeder described a moment from her own son’s college application process that crystallized this gap for her.—
Dr. Liz Doe Stone,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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The former slingshots between harmony and hysteria; the latter petrifies its beauty under a haze of ashy gray powder.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
28 Nov. 2025
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You'll be petrified by the violence inflicted upon boys who only wanted a chance to pull their families out of financial duress and have an opportunity at a comfortable life afforded to most of us sitting in our seats.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
The Enquirer,
13 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Do not use warm or hot water since this can actually cause the blood to coagulate.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
20 Jan. 2026
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The honey was too thick and caused the sauce to kind of coagulate.—
Brittany Loggins,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
17 Dec. 2025
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“Calcify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calcify. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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