harden
Example Sentences
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The fact that it is coming not just from civil society advocates and consumer protection regulators, but now from hardened national security practitioners marks a notable shift.
From Barron's
While this dynamic accurately describes the Third Reich, it has hardened into an orthodoxy that governs how information is interpreted and how moral categories are assigned.
The sides harden into their positions, using words they will probably come to regret.
Over time, those adaptations hardened into “tradition,” exported back to the world as a singular Italian cuisine.
From Salon
Yet like many of the relatively more open-minded elite, his once-flexible positions have hardened during the unrest, which has posed the stiffest challenge to the regime in decades.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
