as in to ossify
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Recent Examples of calcify
It’s been less obvious in the Champions League this season, but their place at the summit of European football is still calcifying.
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Philip Buckingham, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
As is often the case with Twigs, her voice—flowing between an airy falsetto and soulful depths—is the through line, taking vulnerability and calcifying it into something fiercer and stranger.
—Puja Patel, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2025
The coronavirus pandemic and changes in drinking patterns have calcified such trends.
—Ali Watkins, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
This is a call to recognize and drain two swamps that limit innovation, calcify our politics and undermine the West’s strategic position.
—Wal Van Lierop, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Philip Buckingham, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
As is often the case with Twigs, her voice—flowing between an airy falsetto and soulful depths—is the through line, taking vulnerability and calcifying it into something fiercer and stranger.
—Puja Patel, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2025
The coronavirus pandemic and changes in drinking patterns have calcified such trends.
—Ali Watkins, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
This is a call to recognize and drain two swamps that limit innovation, calcify our politics and undermine the West’s strategic position.
—Wal Van Lierop, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calcify
Verb
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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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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
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But at their core, pockets represented functional clothing, and women’s dress was meant to be decorative; these ideas crystallized during the Enlightenment era, which also led to men ditching their heels and more ornate adornments, and instead adopting more sober, standardized dress.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
9 Apr. 2025
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This weekend, Johnson promised, his keynote address will crystallize.—
Dan Wiederer,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Apr. 2025
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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
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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
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Hope needs to find hope and coagulate into a giant hope.—
Steven Zeitchik,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Calcify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calcify. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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