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
Since then, the sprawling content business that the New York Times Book Review mystery columnist Sarah Weinman has called the true-crime industrial complex has matured and ossified.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2023
An ossified system can’t respond to hacks, and therefore has trouble evolving.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2023
Coasting on his prewar renown, he won elections to Congress and as governor of Massachusetts, but he did little but make new enemies and dismay old friends: “The resolve ossified to rigidity.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022
First surprise flitted over his features, then it ossified to hostility.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
