ossified

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Despite their reputation for being ossified, “many major European companies are malleable now,” says Sarah Ketterer, chief executive of Causeway Capital Management, a Los Angeles-based global investment firm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

Unlike the ossified networks, DePetro is free to churn out content whenever he wants, for an audience keen to follow the investigation through 90-second updates.

From Slate • Feb. 23, 2026

The proposed cleanup and redevelopment of this ossified power plant joins a growing collection of such projects across the nation.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2023

Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda have become ossified, Fitzgerald said, more intellectual property in a billion-dollar franchise than human beings evolving in organic ways.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2023

All past oligarchies have fallen from power either because they ossified or because they grew soft.

From "1984" by George Orwell