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Recent Examples of calcify
With his focus clear, sources say, William's anger has calcified into indifference about the situation, a friend told The Sunday Times in June.
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Simon Perry, People.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Stories like the closest, about inglorious grunt work and uncommon sacrifice, are everywhere in the NFL; tales that calcify with each retelling until the truth of this coach or that executive’s rise becomes inseparable from myth.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 7 Aug. 2025
Without narrative space, these small wounds calcify into resentment.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
However, the affected limb has calcified and doesn't cause Ainsley pain.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
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Simon Perry, People.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Stories like the closest, about inglorious grunt work and uncommon sacrifice, are everywhere in the NFL; tales that calcify with each retelling until the truth of this coach or that executive’s rise becomes inseparable from myth.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 7 Aug. 2025
Without narrative space, these small wounds calcify into resentment.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
However, the affected limb has calcified and doesn't cause Ainsley pain.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calcify
Verb
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His worldview has ossified, and there is perhaps understandably a sense that his country has left him behind.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
2 May 2025
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The final age is the modern one, with the world now mostly settled and divided up, its borders more sharply defined and ossified.—
Yussef Cole,
New York Times,
8 Feb. 2025
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That vulnerability crystallizes in her scenes opposite French screen legend Daniel Auteuil, who plays her ex-husband, Gabriel.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Sep. 2025
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With only a handful of the local elections yet to be decided, the will of the members is beginning to crystallize, though there is still more to unfold.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
4 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The only issue is his mother Laura (Wright), a woman who has lost a child once before and is petrified of a repeat.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Sep. 2025
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So don’t go around being petrified of having your esophagus rupture someday.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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The basketball gods have handed us an opportunity — a chance to stir up a rivalry that has been sitting cold and coagulating on the back burner for far too long.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 Aug. 2025
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Within hours the pool would coagulate into electric-blue slush, like a gas station Slurpee.—
Alec Luhn,
Scientific American,
20 May 2025
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“Calcify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calcify. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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