as in to ossify
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Recent Examples of calcify
There’s an image of New York City, calcified in film, memoir, and newsprint, of a city built on a foundation of scruffy subcultures, especially those communities grounded in the city’s hundreds of distinct diasporas.
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Kat Chen,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Apr. 2026
As the genre eventually called alt-country calcified in Souled American’s wake, luminaries like John Darnielle, Will Oldham, and Tweedy himself all evangelized about the Chicago group without ever replicating their sound.
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Zach Schonfeld,
Pitchfork,
17 Apr. 2026
Over the course of the shift, his body seems to calcify with tension, as though every successive hour in the hospital adds weight.
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Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
10 Jan. 2026
The liberal impulse — insistence that injustice isn’t cured by patience, willingness to reform systems that calcify into maladministration — can keep institutions from becoming the archives of old hierarchies.
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Robert T.f. Downes,
Hartford Courant,
6 Jan. 2026
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Kat Chen,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Apr. 2026
As the genre eventually called alt-country calcified in Souled American’s wake, luminaries like John Darnielle, Will Oldham, and Tweedy himself all evangelized about the Chicago group without ever replicating their sound.
—
Zach Schonfeld,
Pitchfork,
17 Apr. 2026
Over the course of the shift, his body seems to calcify with tension, as though every successive hour in the hospital adds weight.
—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
10 Jan. 2026
The liberal impulse — insistence that injustice isn’t cured by patience, willingness to reform systems that calcify into maladministration — can keep institutions from becoming the archives of old hierarchies.
—
Robert T.f. Downes,
Hartford Courant,
6 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calcify
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But, like any method, this one risks becoming a mere habit, ossifying into a new convention both visual and thematic.
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The application is old, and time has ossified it into something like an unapproachably evil Mayan relic, filled with shadowy regexes and dark magic, fit to be worshipped from afar but not trifled with.
Verb
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Those concerns and fears crystalize in responses to Anthropic’s Mythos model and the successive rollout of Fable, where both of these models can be useful in allowing hackers to leverage agents swarms.
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The previous night’s service, in which the entire kitchen pulls together under Sydney’s leadership, crystallized his need to move on.
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The first film follows a group of French high-school students who travel to Naples on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius.
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Johansson plays her with a tough edge to match her Queens accent, but Hester is clearly petrified by this perfect storm of ugly events.
Verb
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As most of the scientific books tell us, coagulating protein at lower temperatures produces more tender clumps; adding a little water or cream makes an omelet tenderer still.
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If an egg cracks during boiling, vinegar can help the egg white coagulate faster, preventing it from leaking into the water.
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“Calcify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calcify. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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