calcify
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The late economist Mancur Olson described the danger that, in democracies, interest groups proliferate that cause the government to calcify until it is unable to act.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
But he said their stance "began to calcify into a sort of defensiveness".
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026
It’s to watch it harden and calcify in real time.
From Slate ● May 21, 2025
McKellar: The show is also about how ideologies sort of calcify and end up alienating people, even though they have noble aspirations at the beginning.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024
With each month of silence that passed between them, she felt the silence itself calcify, and become a hard and hulking statue, impossible to defeat.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Over time, income inequality calcifies into wealth inequality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
Networking isn’t like traditional manufacturing or energy infrastructure where market share calcifies over decades.
From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025
These questions and contradictions must be taken up before the narrative around these attacks calcifies into something more sinister.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2021
This exclusion not only calcifies economic and professional immobility, but it also insulates these industries from the full diversity of voices society has to offer.
From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2014
The center partly softens and partly calcifies into a grayish mortarlike mass, and is gritty.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
The later denial of his motion did not cool his grievances, but calcified them.
From Slate ● May 28, 2026
It preserves three dimensional skin, calcified cartilage, and even traces of proteins.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2026
Those are things that we could try that people don’t necessarily have those calcified opinions around yet.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2025
Victor then flips back to an earlier chapter, before their graduation, to a time when Agnes seems less calcified in her idiosyncrasies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2025
Or has she calcified her feelings, protected herself, as he is learning to do?
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
The study also emphasizes that not all calcifying plankton behave the same way.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2026
But amid the platitudes, sadness and shock is calcifying into anger and tension.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025
More than any other company, Marvel has shown us how too many so-called event movies have a way of calcifying into a steady drip of business as usual.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
They know that, in special compartments, corals concentrate ions along with proteins and other molecules to make a slurry known as calcifying fluid.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 24, 2023
Cal′cificā′tion, the process of calcifying, a changing into lime.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
