as in to calcify
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Recent Examples of ossify
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.
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Lee Hutchinson,
ArsTechnica,
4 Feb. 2026
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.
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Franco Ordoñez,
NPR,
26 Jan. 2026
This year’s awards narrative was already feeling especially ossified.
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David Sims,
The Atlantic,
22 Jan. 2026
The world has yet to ossify into routine; reality remains at the consistency of putty.
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Sasha Geffen,
Pitchfork,
21 Jan. 2026
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Lee Hutchinson,
ArsTechnica,
4 Feb. 2026
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
This year’s awards narrative was already feeling especially ossified.
—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
22 Jan. 2026
The world has yet to ossify into routine; reality remains at the consistency of putty.
—
Sasha Geffen,
Pitchfork,
21 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for ossify
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ossify
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Their fix is to let the same model that does the reasoning also curate the knowledge, stored as human-readable notes and organized hierarchically with provenance and a lifecycle so stale plays decay rather than calcify.
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Over time, that bone started to calcify and thicken, bothering his labrums.
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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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“Ossify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ossify. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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