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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

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

Unlike medaka, the zebrafish form a transient scar that doesn't calcify into rigid tissue.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 18, 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

Networking isn’t like traditional manufacturing or energy infrastructure where market share calcifies over decades.

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

Boredom sometimes calcifies into loneliness, and for Daisy, the birds seemed to fix a problem I didn’t even know she had.

From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2021

Emotions often drive reasoning, so as our hearts harden, our thinking also calcifies, and we become dogmatic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2016

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

Still, credit the Administration for injecting more competition into a calcified U.S. defense industrial base.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

But they’d calcified and become larger, causing inflammation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

The mouse model represented early fibrotic changes rather than advanced, heavily calcified aortic stenosis.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026

After years of health struggles, the parasites have now calcified in Lowri's brain.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

On the upper left lung there was a bright place like a calcified star.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

But amid the platitudes, sadness and shock is calcifying into anger and tension.

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025

As they feed on seaweed and seagrass, they trim back algae and help protect slow-growing species such as corals and certain calcifying algae.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 12, 2025

Though I continue to scan them, all those “Best” lists do as much harm as good, calcifying the notion that the lower the acceptance rate and the higher the price, the better the school.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2024

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

Both lungs contained calcifying tubercle; the abdomen was loaded with fat; the spleen was soft; the kidneys were engorged, but otherwise healthy.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle