calcify
Example Sentences
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But he said their stance "began to calcify into a sort of defensiveness".
From BBC • Mar. 16, 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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
