ossify

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Recent Examples of ossify The stereotypes of retirement had not yet ossified: AARP Nation was a new territory, undiscovered if not fertile, and Jansson explored it in Sun City (New York Review Books, $16.95), now reissued in Thomas Teal’s 1976 translation. Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 23 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
  • With his focus clear, sources say, William's anger has calcified into indifference about the situation, a friend told The Sunday Times in June.
    Simon Perry, People.com, 12 Aug. 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
Verb
  • Coherence crystallizes when daily work aligns with broader goals, even under pressure.
    Scott Hutcheson, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Eventually, that magma cooled, crystalized, and solidified creating these rare Australian carbonatites.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The only issue is his mother Laura (Wright), a woman who has lost a child once before and is petrified of a repeat.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
  • So don’t go around being petrified of having your esophagus rupture someday.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
Verb
  • The basketball gods have handed us an opportunity — a chance to stir up a rivalry that has been sitting cold and coagulating on the back burner for far too long.
    Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
  • 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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“Ossify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ossify. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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