calcify
Example Sentences
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When climate models leave out calcifying plankton, they may miss key steps in the global carbon cycle.
From Science Daily
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.
But amid the platitudes, sadness and shock is calcifying into anger and tension.
From BBC
In response to a detailed list of questions, a senior State Department official said fast, drastic changes to foreign aid were necessary to reform a “calcified system.”
From Salon
As they feed on seaweed and seagrass, they trim back algae and help protect slow-growing species such as corals and certain calcifying algae.
From Science Daily
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