as in to ossify
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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.
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Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
The nation’s political divides might just be too old, and too calcified, to keep pace—which, for once, might be to the benefit of the American people.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
Things that are stylish and clever the first time are calcified by the fourth episode.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024
As the Internet and the companies that control it have become an object of permanent public concern, the concerns themselves have calcified into clichés.
—Ben Tarnoff, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2024
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Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
The nation’s political divides might just be too old, and too calcified, to keep pace—which, for once, might be to the benefit of the American people.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
Things that are stylish and clever the first time are calcified by the fourth episode.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024
As the Internet and the companies that control it have become an object of permanent public concern, the concerns themselves have calcified into clichés.
—Ben Tarnoff, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 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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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
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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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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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“Calcify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calcify. Accessed 5 Feb. 2025.
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