calcify

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It’s McKellen reveling in a great role: charmingly funny but also bittersweet in the film’s examination of how fading fame can calcify one’s soul.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

But he said their stance "began to calcify into a sort of defensiveness".

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

Unlike medaka, the zebrafish form a transient scar that doesn't calcify into rigid tissue.

From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2024

That recognition is meant to preserve a nation’s cultural legacy, but it can also calcify traditions.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2023

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