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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

It’s to watch it harden and calcify in real time.

From Slate ● May 21, 2025

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

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

After years of health struggles, the parasites have now calcified in Lowri's brain.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

The Wives’ appeal is in the way they challenge such calcified definitions of “traditional” gender roles.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026

I staggered out of the water and sat on the calcified rocks, my chest heaving.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

The study focuses on three major groups of calcifying plankton: coccolithophores, foraminifers, and pteropods.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2026

But amid the platitudes, sadness and shock is calcifying into anger and tension.

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025

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

The bitterness that he could pour into his words, rather than festering or calcifying on-screen, instead bloomed into something fully felt, vividly textured and often indescribably beautiful.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 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