as in to ossify
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Recent Examples of calcify
Bill’s smarm has calcified into a kind of mad obsession; Hal is a starkly lonely and cowardly man.
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Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2025
Even if the animosity has historically calcified, this is still a banger of a series.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
But its sensibilities had seemed to calcify in recent years.
—Rachel Corbett, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2025
The cortex, in the center, is also made of keratin, but is more flexible because it is not calcified.
—Marie Bladt, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2025
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Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2025
Even if the animosity has historically calcified, this is still a banger of a series.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
But its sensibilities had seemed to calcify in recent years.
—Rachel Corbett, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2025
The cortex, in the center, is also made of keratin, but is more flexible because it is not calcified.
—Marie Bladt, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calcify
Verb
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His worldview has ossified, and there is perhaps understandably a sense that his country has left him behind.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
2 May 2025
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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 full scope of the nightmare began to crystallize even as the chief learned how the instincts of a Brooklyn Park sergeant put the police on a collision course with Vance Boelter, the man accused of assassinating the Hortmans after shooting a state senator and his wife, at a critical moment.—
Danya Gainor,
CNN Money,
18 June 2025
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Since then, his improvement seems to have crystallized.—
Rohan Nadkarni,
NBC news,
17 June 2025
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Nearly every day brings a fresh breach of what were once thought to be the rules, moves that have thrilled his insurgent supporters and petrified his nervous opponents.—
Peter Baker,
New York Times,
30 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
Verb
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Within hours the pool would coagulate into electric-blue slush, like a gas station Slurpee.—
Alec Luhn,
Scientific American,
20 May 2025
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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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“Calcify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calcify. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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