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
After an era of vigorous growth, they ossify and die.
From Scientific American • Nov. 23, 2019
The riots spread throughout Athens, then beyond into Thessaloniki and elsewhere in Europe, drawing many of the battle lines that would ossify once the Greek crisis erupted the following year.
From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2018
Both in moral and in mental qualities we must maintain our vitality, or practically ossify!
From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 by Creswicke, Louis
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