ossified
Example Sentences
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Like every other detail here, that implicit complaint is dusty and ossified, and Mr. Williamson’s formerly wised-up dialogue has been supplanted by a grinding earnestness, with everyone constantly asking about one another’s feelings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
The proposed cleanup and redevelopment of this ossified power plant joins a growing collection of such projects across the nation.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2023
An ossified system can’t respond to hacks, and therefore has trouble evolving.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2023
Coasting on his prewar renown, he won elections to Congress and as governor of Massachusetts, but he did little but make new enemies and dismay old friends: “The resolve ossified to rigidity.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022
What’s more, unlike the paintings bequeathed to posterity by Constable or Rembrandt, his music has not ossified, frozen for ever in time.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
