as in to ossify
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Recent Examples of calcify
The coronavirus pandemic and changes in drinking patterns have calcified such trends.
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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
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
Diving Deep into the Mouth's Microbial Dark Matter The Causes of Tonsil Stones
Tonsil stones form when your tonsils, which are part of your body’s lymphatic system, trap debris in their crevices, which then calcifies.
—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
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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
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
Diving Deep into the Mouth's Microbial Dark Matter The Causes of Tonsil Stones
Tonsil stones form when your tonsils, which are part of your body’s lymphatic system, trap debris in their crevices, which then calcifies.
—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 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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The star’s outer layers are shed, and all that’s left is a core of hot matter that cools down over billions of years and eventually crystallizes.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
14 Feb. 2025
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And to help watchmakers capitalize on that trend, suppliers have been developing some particularly showy materials and techniques, including a method to apply color without dimming the tiny gem particles called nanodiamonds, along with processes to crystallize precious metals.—
Anders Modig Davin,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 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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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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Her husband’s samples had arrived there coagulated and useless.—
John Carreyrou,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Calcify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calcify. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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