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Yet in a provocative new book, The Caste Con Census, scholar-activist Anand Teltumbde warns that the exercise may harden the deeply discriminatory caste system, when the need is to dismantle it.

As hawkish opinion has hardened, doves have had less to say publicly, though they haven’t folded.

I knew it would take a while for the gum to harden, but it appeared to have sealed up the hole.

It was in Las Vegas that Eisman and his associates’ attitude toward the U.S. bond market hardened into something like its final shape.

That is squeezing defense companies, which use antimony to harden bullets and strengthen armor-penetrating projectiles.