calcified

Example Sentences

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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

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 The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

“Yes, there he is, look at that — calcified knees,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2025

You may unfortunately remember the era through the parts that quickly calcified into cliché: $14 cocktails in Mason jars, the monoculture of pork belly, a nationwide proliferation of flaccid fried green tomatoes.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2025

Or has she calcified her feelings, protected herself, as he is learning to do?

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr