as in to crystallize
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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
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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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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
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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
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Lucy’s Law, among other things, stiffens the penalties for seriously injuring someone in a boat crash.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
9 May 2025
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Posture And Mobility: Undoing The Sedentary Spiral Extended sitting does more than stiffen your spine.—
Ximena Araya-Fischel,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
Verb
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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
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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
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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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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
Verb
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Reduce heat to low; simmer until sauce thickens, 5-10 minutes.—
Philip Potempa,
Chicago Tribune,
2 May 2025
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April was fairly cloudy and cool along the San Diego County coastline, and May will start the same way as low pressure from the northwest continues to thicken the marine layer.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Rigidify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rigidify. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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