harden
Example Sentences
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He said the rank and file had been hardened “in the fight against corruption” and praised them as “entirely trustworthy.”
The choice of many schools and companies to convert therapeutic language into policy has hardened these cultural preferences into rules with administrative force.
Pérez’s bill would establish home hardening and defensible space measures set by the insurance commissioner, though Balber said she expects the Safer from Wildfires program would “inform” the new standards.
From Los Angeles Times
Avalanche rescues can be challenging, as loose and fluffy snow consolidates quickly and hardens like concrete, making it difficult for those buried underneath to receive oxygen.
From Los Angeles Times
Aggressive and revolutionary from the start, Iran’s regime has hardened into what the historian Ali M. Ansari calls an “Islamic security state.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
