calcified

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The later denial of his motion did not cool his grievances, but calcified them.

From Slate • May 28, 2026

Those wins come from a combination of tax and entitlement reform, wholesale deregulation, the administration’s disruption of a calcified budget process, and some spending leadership in Congress.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

It’s a socioeconomic and psychological cocktail that, experts explained, has calcified as a sort of baked-in resentment against older generations — but one that, when you consider things from their perspective, might be understandable.

From Salon • May 2, 2025

But by 1965 he is almost always behind sunglasses, his enigma calcified.

From BBC • Dec. 11, 2024

She could see how it had taken root, calcified, inflamed by his own guilt and shame.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill