as in to crystallize
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Presidential hopefuls often, though not always, release books before launching a campaign, giving them a moment in the spotlight before new audiences and a chance to crystallize their message embarking on a campaign.—
Hillel Italie,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Apr. 2026 -
However, Joe Ropar, attending the Conservative Political Action Conference last week, said Rubio’s unequivocal support for the Iran war helped crystallize his preference for the secretary of state for 2028.—
Michelle L. Price,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2026
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The positions of both the U.S. government and Iran have ossified since May 8, 2018 – the date when the first Trump administration withdrew the United States from the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal.—
Nina Srinivasan Rathbun,
The Conversation,
17 Feb. 2026
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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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Scott sings through a grin, refusing to let setbacks calcify.—
Marcus J. Moore,
Pitchfork,
18 Feb. 2026
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Her performance balances restraint with sudden flashes of overwhelming emotion and even fury, effectively embodying a woman whose subtle self-abuse has calcified into habit.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
25 Jan. 2026
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Moving the kink to one end makes that side soft and the opposite end stiff; placing it at the center softens the middle and stiffens both edges.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Mar. 2026
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The long lull in excitement threatened to sap our energy, and being stuck in a car for four hours after a morning of physical exertion can stiffen the body.—
Gregory Thomas,
San Francisco Chronicle,
21 Mar. 2026
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The filmmaker leans pop-comic rather than petrifying in his final draft, opting for earnestness that smothers atmospheric dread.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
6 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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Before freezing, blanching the potatoes gelatinizes surface starches, and freezing encourages those starches to reorganize into a firmer structure.—
Anne Wolf,
Martha Stewart,
8 Feb. 2026
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Starches swell with heat and water, gelatinizing to give dough its airy lift.—
Sanjay Srivastava,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Two dented blue bottles of Cuajo Titanium, a liquid coagulating enzyme used to curdle milk, remained on a wooden table, caked in mud.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
27 Mar. 2026
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A lot of the ambivalent parent discourse tends to coagulate around white cis-het mothers of a certain milieu.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
16 Mar. 2026
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The information war would almost certainly thicken at the same time.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2026
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Flour is added to the mushroom mixture to thicken the broth to create a gravy.—
Robin Miller,
AZCentral.com,
19 Mar. 2026
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“Rigidify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rigidify. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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