calcify
Example Sentences
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Networking isn’t like traditional manufacturing or energy infrastructure where market share calcifies over decades.
From Barron's
While her photographs are always premeditated and posed, their primary intent is to calcify a particular moment in time to ensure that she — and we — never forget it.
From New York Times
Researchers used micro-CT scanning, similar to CAT scans humans use in medical facilities, to image the internal architecture of each vertebra and quantified various mineral structures found in the calcified cartilage.
From Science Daily
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
The age issue, which I view as largely a manufactured one, is one that has calcified.
From Seattle Times
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