as in to ossify
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Recent Examples of calcify
As is often the case with Twigs, her voice—flowing between an airy falsetto and soulful depths—is the through line, taking vulnerability and calcifying it into something fiercer and stranger.
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Puja Patel, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2025
What were once relatively cordial rivalries have calcified into something more vitriolic, those executives said.
—Tariq Panja, New York Times, 17 May 2024
The coronavirus pandemic and changes in drinking patterns have calcified such trends.
—Ali Watkins, New York Times, 24 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
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Puja Patel, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2025
What were once relatively cordial rivalries have calcified into something more vitriolic, those executives said.
—Tariq Panja, New York Times, 17 May 2024
The coronavirus pandemic and changes in drinking patterns have calcified such trends.
—Ali Watkins, New York Times, 24 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
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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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Plan of attack With his coaching staff now in place, Johnson must crystallize his vision for the roster with general manager Ryan Poles.—
Dan Wiederer,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Feb. 2025
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But that film rocked me to my core in a way that crystallized my career path in film.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
20 Feb. 2025
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Some three-dimensional metallic roses grew on their shiny reflective surfaces, with an important symbolism that served as a fit rouge for the entire collection: as fragile objects suddenly petrified, their hardened fragility was the designer’s own.—
Giorgia Feroldi,
Vogue,
1 Mar. 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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Still, blood’s habit of coagulating, so useful in the body, proved a challenge outside of it: within a few minutes of beginning a transfusion, clots would gum up the needles and tubes, seriously limiting the quantity of blood that could be moved from person to person.—
Nicola Twilley,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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Her husband’s samples had arrived there coagulated and useless.—
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 20 Mar. 2025.
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