as in to calcify
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Recent Examples of ossify
But the only time the new movie feels like its joints haven’t ossified is in a few scenes with L.A. oddballs like Nasim Pedrad’s ditzy real estate agent or Affion Crockett as a country club valet who’s not falling for Axel’s shtick.
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Ty Burr, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
In the past decade, factional divisions within the regime have narrowed; a hard-line consensus has ossified.
—Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
At the same time, containment put unrelenting pressure on the Soviet Union and arguably led eventually to the internal collapse of the clumsy and ossified Soviet government — an outcome Kennan predicted.
—Richard Babcock, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2024
That order, despite its authoritarianism and fierce policing of the public sphere, never fully ossified.
—Laura Secor, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013
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Ty Burr, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
In the past decade, factional divisions within the regime have narrowed; a hard-line consensus has ossified.
—Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
At the same time, containment put unrelenting pressure on the Soviet Union and arguably led eventually to the internal collapse of the clumsy and ossified Soviet government — an outcome Kennan predicted.
—Richard Babcock, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2024
That order, despite its authoritarianism and fierce policing of the public sphere, never fully ossified.
—Laura Secor, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ossify
Verb
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It’s been less obvious in the Champions League this season, but their place at the summit of European football is still calcifying.—
Philip Buckingham,
The Athletic,
22 Jan. 2025
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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
Verb
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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
Verb
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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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“Ossify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ossify. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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