calcify
Example Sentences
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“Over time the cholesterol builds up and it calcifies,” says Dr. Sadiya Khan, a preventive cardiologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
The Wives’ appeal is in the way they challenge such calcified definitions of “traditional” gender roles.
From Salon
But he said their stance "began to calcify into a sort of defensiveness".
From BBC
When climate models leave out calcifying plankton, they may miss key steps in the global carbon cycle.
From Science Daily
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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
