as in to calcify
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Recent Examples of ossify
The three CEOs help articulate an essential question for your consideration: Does AI catalyze job growth or ossify the workforce?
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Dan Pontefract, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
His worldview has ossified, and there is perhaps understandably a sense that his country has left him behind.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 2 May 2025
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
Ukrainian and Russian goals through the end of 2022 are therefore on a collision course: one side is working to prevent the conflict from ossifying along a frozen line of contact while the other works to attain precisely that outcome.
—Dara Massicot, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2022
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Dan Pontefract, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
His worldview has ossified, and there is perhaps understandably a sense that his country has left him behind.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 2 May 2025
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
Ukrainian and Russian goals through the end of 2022 are therefore on a collision course: one side is working to prevent the conflict from ossifying along a frozen line of contact while the other works to attain precisely that outcome.
—Dara Massicot, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ossify
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Scott sings through a grin, refusing to let setbacks calcify.—
Marcus J. Moore,
Pitchfork,
18 Feb. 2026
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Her performance balances restraint with sudden flashes of overwhelming emotion and even fury, effectively embodying a woman whose subtle self-abuse has calcified into habit.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
25 Jan. 2026
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Welts said city officials are aware the team wants to stay in Dallas and wants to begin crystallizing the whereabouts of a new home starting in July.—
Devyani Chhetri,
Dallas Morning News,
3 Mar. 2026
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The moment everything crystallized was the night of our first-ever live show.—
Roger Bennett,
Fortune,
2 Mar. 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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“Ossify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ossify. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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