ossified
Example Sentences
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Despite their reputation for being ossified, “many major European companies are malleable now,” says Sarah Ketterer, chief executive of Causeway Capital Management, a Los Angeles-based global investment firm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The proposed cleanup and redevelopment of this ossified power plant joins a growing collection of such projects across the nation.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2023
Nor can you, apparently, be a successful, divorced, outspoken biracial American career woman and thrive among the hierarchically ossified, stiff-upper-lip royal family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
Ironize forms — such as the oral history or the rockumentary — that have ossified?
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023
All past oligarchies have fallen from power either because they ossified or because they grew soft.
From "1984" by George Orwell
