as in to calcify
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Recent Examples of ossify
The three CEOs help articulate an essential question for your consideration: Does AI catalyze job growth or ossify the workforce?
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Dan Pontefract, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
His worldview has ossified, and there is perhaps understandably a sense that his country has left him behind.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 2 May 2025
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
Ukrainian and Russian goals through the end of 2022 are therefore on a collision course: one side is working to prevent the conflict from ossifying along a frozen line of contact while the other works to attain precisely that outcome.
—Dara Massicot, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2022
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Dan Pontefract, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
His worldview has ossified, and there is perhaps understandably a sense that his country has left him behind.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 2 May 2025
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
Ukrainian and Russian goals through the end of 2022 are therefore on a collision course: one side is working to prevent the conflict from ossifying along a frozen line of contact while the other works to attain precisely that outcome.
—Dara Massicot, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ossify
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But during this period, three crucial things happened which clarified (if not calcified) a difference in artistic approach between the two men.—
Paul A. Thompson,
Pitchfork,
23 Jan. 2026
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And that belief can calcify into adult patterns where money becomes a reliable currency of belonging.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
20 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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“Ossify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ossify. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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