calcify
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The late economist Mancur Olson described the danger that, in democracies, interest groups proliferate that cause the government to calcify until it is unable to act.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
"Apparently they just sort of die down and they calcify basically. So at this point they are now calcified."
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
It’s McKellen reveling in a great role: charmingly funny but also bittersweet in the film’s examination of how fading fame can calcify one’s soul.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
It’s to watch it harden and calcify in real time.
From Slate ● May 21, 2025
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
Over time, income inequality calcifies into wealth inequality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
Networking isn’t like traditional manufacturing or energy infrastructure where market share calcifies over decades.
From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025
Boredom sometimes calcifies into loneliness, and for Daisy, the birds seemed to fix a problem I didn’t even know she had.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
This exclusion not only calcifies economic and professional immobility, but it also insulates these industries from the full diversity of voices society has to offer.
From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2014
The center partly softens and partly calcifies into a grayish mortarlike mass, and is gritty.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
"We were surprised by how much P. gingivalis was present in the calcified aortic valves," Li said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
After years of health struggles, the parasites have now calcified in Lowri's brain.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
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
I staggered out of the water and sat on the calcified rocks, my chest heaving.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
When climate models leave out calcifying plankton, they may miss key steps in the global carbon cycle.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2026
But amid the platitudes, sadness and shock is calcifying into anger and tension.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025
More than any other company, Marvel has shown us how too many so-called event movies have a way of calcifying into a steady drip of business as usual.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
They know that, in special compartments, corals concentrate ions along with proteins and other molecules to make a slurry known as calcifying fluid.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 24, 2023
Cal′cificā′tion, the process of calcifying, a changing into lime.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
