ossify

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Recent Examples of ossify Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2024 But the only time the new movie feels like its joints haven’t ossified is in a few scenes with L.A. oddballs like Nasim Pedrad’s ditzy real estate agent or Affion Crockett as a country club valet who’s not falling for Axel’s shtick. Ty Burr, Washington Post, 3 July 2024 At the same time, containment put unrelenting pressure on the Soviet Union and arguably led eventually to the internal collapse of the clumsy and ossified Soviet government — an outcome Kennan predicted. Richard Babcock, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2024 Featuring entries dedicated to the abominable snowman and Nandi bears alongside examinations of platypuses and gorillas, Heuvelmans’s book celebrates the potential of a world teeming with creatures the scientific record has not yet ossified into fact. Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 18 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for ossify
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ossify
Verb
  • American film critics were beginning to adopt a more adversarial philosophy, influenced by the auteur theory calcified in Cahiers du cinéma magazine.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Bill’s smarm has calcified into a kind of mad obsession; Hal is a starkly lonely and cowardly man.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The relationships and the conflicts that might define or crystallize or complete these characters’ journeys never really materialize, aside from a couple of pro-forma gunfights that feel airlifted in from another, more conventional western.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 May 2025
  • The visions, a versatile piece filling multiple roles in an already talented secondary, began to crystallize.
    Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 25 Apr. 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
Verb
  • That familiar lump of expectation coagulated in my stomach and throat.
    Thomas Weddle, Outdoor Life, 17 Apr. 2025
  • But there was another possible explanation the company didn’t discuss: Blood could coagulate inside the filter if the dialysis machine’s flow rate was set too low.
    John Carreyrou, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025

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“Ossify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ossify. Accessed 20 May. 2025.

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