hardened
Example Sentences
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“While China’s industry is highly skilled and highly capable, its dominant position is both enabled and hardened by subsidies, price manipulation, and scale,” said Matthew Sloustcher, MP Materials’
From Barron's
Beijing is acting now to break a cycle that has hardened over a decade.
Admirers, including Mahmood, point out that as the policies hardened, the poll ratings of the Social Democrat party rose - and those of a populist right-wing movement, the People's Party fell.
From BBC
Each count, Mr Teltumbde argues, "did not merely record caste, but reified and hardened it".
From BBC
As hawkish opinion has hardened, doves have had less to say publicly, though they haven’t folded.
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