case-harden

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Verb
  • There is a level of excitement, sure, but it is tempered by an appreciation of the circumstances.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 16 May 2025
  • Director Valerie Lewis tried to temper high emotions in the room.
    Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • Workable quantum solutions that make use of annealing systems are now in use.
    Chuck Brooks, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
  • These services provide access to advanced quantum computing technologies, including annealing quantum computers with over 5,000 qubits and quantum-classical hybrid solvers capable of tackling complex problems involving up to one million variables.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Ice cream and frozen treats: Since invert sugar crystallizes more slowly and less frequently than other sugars, it is widely used in frozen treats like ice cream.
    Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 8 May 2025
  • Many enduring genres crystallized in the mid-thirties—the screwball comedy, the grand-scale action adventure, big-boned literary adaptations, the modern musical (a template exemplified by the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers)—and all were illuminated and endorsed by Sennwald.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 7 May 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • Medusa was known in ancient Greece for petrifying anyone who dared to look her in the eye, and has been seen as a personification of madness.
    Sarah Belmont, ARTnews.com, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Case-harden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/case-harden. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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