reify

Each count, Mr Teltumbde argues, "did not merely record caste, but reified and hardened it".

Recently, the conservative Supreme Court reified the concept with the Dobbs decision, reversing the constitutional right to abortion under Roe v.

Recent Supreme Court rulings have laid the groundwork for this strategy by reifying the right-wing belief that "science" is whatever a Federalist Society-selected judge says it is.

We see this push for closure reified across American culture.

The brain latches on or compares itself to others, starting a negative cycle of thinking that can reify itself.