calcify
Example Sentences
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But he said their stance "began to calcify into a sort of defensiveness".
From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026
McKellar: The show is also about how ideologies sort of calcify and end up alienating people, even though they have noble aspirations at the beginning.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2024
Unlike medaka, the zebrafish form a transient scar that doesn't calcify into rigid tissue.
From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2024
That recognition is meant to preserve a nation’s cultural legacy, but it can also calcify traditions.
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2023
With each month of silence that passed between them, she felt the silence itself calcify, and become a hard and hulking statue, impossible to defeat.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
