calcify

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It’s McKellen reveling in a great role: charmingly funny but also bittersweet in the film’s examination of how fading fame can calcify one’s soul.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

But he said their stance "began to calcify into a sort of defensiveness".

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

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

From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2024

By beginning to calcify the rights of climate refugees under international human rights law, the U.N. panel’s recent decision applies some pressure to nations to come to the table to formally guarantee those rights.

From Slate • Feb. 19, 2020

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