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
"Apparently they just sort of die down and they calcify basically. So at this point they are now calcified."
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 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
And the fact that this has been allowed for so long calcifies in the culture of Capitol Hill to the point that it’s just accepted.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2022
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
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
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
But they’d calcified and become larger, causing inflammation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
"We were surprised by how much P. gingivalis was present in the calcified aortic valves," Li said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
The later denial of his motion did not cool his grievances, but calcified them.
From Slate ● May 28, 2026
Those are things that we could try that people don’t necessarily have those calcified opinions around yet.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2025
I staggered out of the water and sat on the calcified rocks, my chest heaving.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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
Cal′cificā′tion, the process of calcifying, a changing into lime.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
