calcified

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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

“Yes, there he is, look at that — calcified knees,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2025

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

Or has she calcified her feelings, protected herself, as he is learning to do?

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr