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
Without healthy federal support for the space program, ambitions calcify, and the economy that once thrived on a culture of innovation retreats from the world stage.
—Neil Degrasse Tyson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2012
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
What were once relatively cordial rivalries have calcified into something more vitriolic, those executives said.
—Tariq Panja, New York Times, 17 May 2024
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Philip Buckingham, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
Without healthy federal support for the space program, ambitions calcify, and the economy that once thrived on a culture of innovation retreats from the world stage.
—Neil Degrasse Tyson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2012
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
What were once relatively cordial rivalries have calcified into something more vitriolic, those executives said.
—Tariq Panja, New York Times, 17 May 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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Each chapter offers guidance to crystallize an athlete’s focus, creating the type of confident calmness that Citron has been seeking her entire career.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
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In response, the Trump administration has been striking a different tone this time around – one crystallized on Sunday by Mr. Trump’s second-in-command.—
Henry Gass,
The Christian Science Monitor,
11 Feb. 2025
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Some three-dimensional metallic roses grew on their shiny reflective surfaces, with an important symbolism that served as a fit rouge for the entire collection: as fragile objects suddenly petrified, their hardened fragility was the designer’s own.—
Giorgia Feroldi,
Vogue,
1 Mar. 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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Hope needs to find hope and coagulate into a giant hope.—
Steven Zeitchik,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Mar. 2025
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Still, blood’s habit of coagulating, so useful in the body, proved a challenge outside of it: within a few minutes of beginning a transfusion, clots would gum up the needles and tubes, seriously limiting the quantity of blood that could be moved from person to person.—
Nicola Twilley,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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“Calcify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calcify. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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