rigidify

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Verb
  • In recent days, Butler’s desire to make his way to the Phoenix Suns has been crystallized all around the league.
    Sam Amick, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
  • By now, Playboi Carti’s coarse hiss has crystallized into the defining factor of this run, another breakthrough in his evolution of vocal gymnastics.
    Olivier Lafontant, Pitchfork, 8 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • Once the answers become ossified, the questions become rhetorical, and the education ceases to cultivate the child’s capacities.
    Ray Ravaglia, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • The coronavirus pandemic and changes in drinking patterns have calcified such trends.
    Ali Watkins, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
  • If developments are left to follow their course, a de facto separation appears likely to calcify.
    Jason Pack, Foreign Affairs, 10 Jan. 2017
Verb
  • But the Ravens defense stiffened at the right time, sacking Wilson with defensive tackle Nnamdi Madubuike delivering a crunching sack on a third-down play to force a punt as the third quarter came to an end.
    Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The schedule stiffens now, starting with Ja Morant and the Memphis Grizzlies at home on Saturday.
    Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 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
  • Antonio ended up in intensive care at Dell’s Children's Medical Center and was gaunt, his blood coagulating.
    Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American-Statesman, 24 Nov. 2024
  • As a preventative course of treatment, people with the blood disorder receive weekly injections of factor IX to enable their blood to coagulate, said GOSH.
    Julia O'Driscoll, The Week UK, theweek, 27 June 2024
Verb
  • It's primarily made up of water, ammonium phosphate — an ingredient commonly found in fertilizer — and pink coloring, though it's thickened with gum to improve accuracy for aerial drops.
    Terry Dickerson, NBC News, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Reduce heat to medium-high and simmer, stirring occasionally, until thickened, about 5 minutes.
    Elizabeth Mervosh, Southern Living, 11 Jan. 2025
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