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
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
It’s to watch it harden and calcify in real time.
From Slate ● May 21, 2025
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 mouse model represented early fibrotic changes rather than advanced, heavily calcified aortic stenosis.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
The later denial of his motion did not cool his grievances, but calcified them.
From Slate ● May 28, 2026
The hope had been to bring in major new foreign investment and create jobs – real ones, away from the calcified state sector – for Saudi Arabia's large and ever-growing young population.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
“Yes, there he is, look at that — calcified knees,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025
When José Arcadio Buendía and the four men of his expedition managed to take the armor apart, they found inside a calcified skeleton with a copper locket containing a woman’s hair around its neck.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
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
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
