as in to crystallize
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As mainstream medical opinion crystallized in favor of vaccination, the combination of liberal political values, holistic ideas about the body, and alternative health entrepreneurship shaped vaccine resistance after the Jacobson ruling.—
Helen L. Murphey / Made by History,
TIME,
29 Jan. 2025 -
Two hours later, when news broke of the Palisades Fire, that morning unease crystallized into stark reality.—
Barbara A. Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Jan. 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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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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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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The coronavirus pandemic and changes in drinking patterns have calcified such trends.—
Ali Watkins,
New York Times,
24 Dec. 2024
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Spritzing the end of the thread with hairspray will stiffen it just enough to be able to be threaded more easily, but keeps enough flexibility to be used.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
5 Jan. 2025
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Restrictive cardiomyopathy: Another rare type, this causes heart muscles to stiffen, which in turn prevents the heart’s ventricles from filling with enough blood to pump throughout the body.—
Elizabeth Millard,
TIME,
18 Dec. 2024
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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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Her husband’s samples had arrived there coagulated and useless.—
John Carreyrou,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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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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Using tiny shells and chopping all ingredients up small means that the soup is easy to eat and easy to digest, while partially blending the soup helps thicken up the broth and give it a bit more body.—
Nicole Hopper,
Southern Living,
12 Jan. 2025
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The power had officially gone out and the entire neighborhood was dark, the air thickened with smoke.—
Corina Knoll,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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