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Recent Examples of calcify
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.
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Robert T.f. Downes, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2026
That Washington won its season finale Sunday over the Eagles, playing mostly starters against mostly Eagles backups, could calcify a hardened heart — or, someone hoping the Commanders would rise up from the seventh pick in the first round of April’s draft.
—David Aldridge, New York Times, 5 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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Robert T.f. Downes, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2026
That Washington won its season finale Sunday over the Eagles, playing mostly starters against mostly Eagles backups, could calcify a hardened heart — or, someone hoping the Commanders would rise up from the seventh pick in the first round of April’s draft.
—David Aldridge, New York Times, 5 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
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And he's taken aim at the foreign policy apparatus, describing institutions like the NSC and State Department as having been ossified and out of touch.—
Franco Ordoñez,
NPR,
26 Jan. 2026
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This year’s awards narrative was already feeling especially ossified.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
22 Jan. 2026
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This season crystallized around powerful tailoring, suiting emerged as a cornerstone, reinterpreted with both structure and sensuality.—
Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
17 Feb. 2026
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However, the film’s critique of the art world only decidedly crystallizes when Chiara Caselli’s Giulia, the Italian gallery owner representing Nina, shows up over an hour into the 104-minute movie.—
Lé Baltar,
IndieWire,
17 Feb. 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
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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 25 Feb. 2026.
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