ossify

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Or am I about to do something that is going to reinforce these divisions and ossify the boundaries between people?

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2023

We know, for example, that when you hit your 60s and 70s, vocal folds weaken, cartilage in the larynx begins to ossify and respiratory systems that power voices start to work less efficiently.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2021

Nadal, who has a longstanding foot problem because his navicular bone did not correctly ossify during childhood, was upbeat about his progress after his loss to Harris.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2021

After an era of vigorous growth, they ossify and die.

From Scientific American • Nov. 23, 2019

The latter will always take care of themselves—the danger being that they rapidly tend to ossify us.

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt