calcified

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Those wins come from a combination of tax and entitlement reform, wholesale deregulation, the administration’s disruption of a calcified budget process, and some spending leadership in Congress.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

Pre-op checks had indicated Mrs Readhead's left side was to be used for the TAVI, as her right side had some blockages because of calcified arteries.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2025

You may unfortunately remember the era through the parts that quickly calcified into cliché: $14 cocktails in Mason jars, the monoculture of pork belly, a nationwide proliferation of flaccid fried green tomatoes.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2025

Science and media really do tend to focus heavily on the animals with calcified internal architecture.

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2024

She could see how it had taken root, calcified, inflamed by his own guilt and shame.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill