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Recent Examples of calcify
That Washington won its season finale Sunday over the Eagles, playing mostly starters against mostly Eagles backups, could calcify a hardened heart — or, someone hoping the Commanders would rise up from the seventh pick in the first round of April’s draft.
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David Aldridge, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
Schumer started as Senate leader when Trump took office, but with MAGA not yet calcified, Democrats had plenty of opportunities to work across the aisle and deliver high-profile defeats to Trump’s policies.
—Alex J. Rouhandeh, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2025
That's where disparate power dynamics can calcify.
—Annie Nova, CNBC, 8 Nov. 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
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David Aldridge, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
Schumer started as Senate leader when Trump took office, but with MAGA not yet calcified, Democrats had plenty of opportunities to work across the aisle and deliver high-profile defeats to Trump’s policies.
—Alex J. Rouhandeh, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2025
That's where disparate power dynamics can calcify.
—Annie Nova, CNBC, 8 Nov. 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calcify
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And he's taken aim at the foreign policy apparatus, describing institutions like the NSC and State Department as having been ossified and out of touch.—
Franco Ordoñez,
NPR,
26 Jan. 2026
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This year’s awards narrative was already feeling especially ossified.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
22 Jan. 2026
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The two women’s stories crystallize only gradually in the course of the feature, through the accretion of tiny details that, like the arrival of the hostess in the first shot, emerge amid a profusion of related distractions.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
4 Feb. 2026
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Then came the sentence that crystallized everything.—
Kaitlyn Gomez,
USA Today,
1 Feb. 2026
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The former slingshots between harmony and hysteria; the latter petrifies its beauty under a haze of ashy gray powder.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
28 Nov. 2025
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You'll be petrified by the violence inflicted upon boys who only wanted a chance to pull their families out of financial duress and have an opportunity at a comfortable life afforded to most of us sitting in our seats.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
The Enquirer,
13 Sep. 2025
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Do not use warm or hot water since this can actually cause the blood to coagulate.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
20 Jan. 2026
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The honey was too thick and caused the sauce to kind of coagulate.—
Brittany Loggins,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
17 Dec. 2025
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“Calcify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calcify. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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