ossified
Example Sentences
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Despite their reputation for being ossified, “many major European companies are malleable now,” says Sarah Ketterer, chief executive of Causeway Capital Management, a Los Angeles-based global investment firm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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
Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda have become ossified, Fitzgerald said, more intellectual property in a billion-dollar franchise than human beings evolving in organic ways.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
An ossified system can’t respond to hacks, and therefore has trouble evolving.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2023
Merely rational thought—forgive me for preaching, but I must, I must!—merely rational thought leaves the mind incurably crippled in a closed and ossified system, it can only extrapolate from the past.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
