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Recent Examples of calcify
White Sox management has long been thought of as calcified in its strategies, disinclined to make changes, and not evolving with the rest of the sport.
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Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
And then the good couple is looking to them, because they are calcified and struggling.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2024
Sununu announced to the nearest reporters that Haley would be taking a couple of questions after she was done conversing at her current table; word reverberated through the oozing mass of reporters, who soon calcified into a phalanx of cameras and upthrusted cell phones, ready to record.
—Kyle Paoletta, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
Over time, the suggestions calcify into a set of expectations which, in turn, become the measuring stick by which sustainability leaders are graded.
—Jody L. Bickel, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
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Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
And then the good couple is looking to them, because they are calcified and struggling.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2024
Sununu announced to the nearest reporters that Haley would be taking a couple of questions after she was done conversing at her current table; word reverberated through the oozing mass of reporters, who soon calcified into a phalanx of cameras and upthrusted cell phones, ready to record.
—Kyle Paoletta, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
Over time, the suggestions calcify into a set of expectations which, in turn, become the measuring stick by which sustainability leaders are graded.
—Jody L. Bickel, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calcify
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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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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
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Lunar zircon, like other minerals on the moon, was thought to have crystallized from extreme temperatures when the moon was created, but its much older age has long confounded scientists.Denise Chow, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2024
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The early curiosity provides a window into the overlap between parts of the left and right, whose views on excessive government spending, especially around the country’s military apparatus, have created unlikely alliances that could crystallize in the new Trump era.Hanna Trudo, The Hill, 10 Dec. 2024
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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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Numb to controversy: After constant scandals, Trump is desensitized to infernos that would petrify anyone else in business or politics.Axios, Axios, 25 Nov. 2024
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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
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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
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“Calcify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calcify. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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