calcification \ ˌkal-sə-fə-ˈkā-shən \ noun
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//The election of Donald Trump calcified my ambivalence into an ambiguous wariness stemming from an unambiguous truth.
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Damon Young, Time, "How I Came to View the American Flag as a Threat," 12 Sep. 2019
//Perhaps one way of understanding The Topeka School is as a meditation on how the snow of whiteness can calcify and harden, freeze, into an icy weapon.
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Christine Smallwood, Harper's magazine, "Novel, Essay, Poem," 16 Sep. 2019
//The consistency suggests the president's weak standing with the American people is calcified after two years of near-constant political crises and divisive rhetoric at the White House.
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Steve Peoples, Fortune, "Trump Approval Rating: Still Weak, Despite Economy," 22 Aug. 2019
//Submerged in the corner of a retention pond in Wellington, Florida, rested a car that was heavily calcified and clearly had been in the water for a long time.
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The Washington Post, oregonlive, "For 22 years, his disappearance was a mystery; then, someone spotted something odd in a Google Earth photo," 14 Sep. 2019
//The consistency suggests the president’s weak standing with the American people is calcified after two years of near-constant political crises and divisive rhetoric at the White House.
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Hannah Fingerhut, The Denver Post, "6 in 10 Americans disapprove of how Trump’s handling his job, AP-NORC poll says," 22 Aug. 2019
//Lydia, as Dowd plays her, isn’t a lonely woman whose pain is calcifying into maliciousness.
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Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, "The Cruelty of Aunt Lydia," 13 July 2019
//Having cracked open advertising’s calcified male dominance, Har’el now has her sights on the larger entertainment industry.
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Stacy Perman, latimes.com, "Filmmaker Alma Har'el frees up space for women in the entertainment industry," 17 June 2019
//Now, after decades keeping the world at arm's length, the Argentine has gone on the record to have his say on a narrative long-calcified in public memory.
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Thomas Page, CNN, "Sex, drugs and soccer: Diego Maradona film shines light on Napoli years," 12 June 2019
First Known Use of calcify
1836, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
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