as in to crystallize
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In recent days, Butler’s desire to make his way to the Phoenix Suns has been crystallized all around the league.—
Sam Amick,
The Athletic,
9 Jan. 2025 -
By now, Playboi Carti’s coarse hiss has crystallized into the defining factor of this run, another breakthrough in his evolution of vocal gymnastics.—
Olivier Lafontant,
Pitchfork,
8 Jan. 2025
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The stereotypes of retirement had not yet ossified: AARP Nation was a new territory, undiscovered if not fertile, and Jansson explored it in Sun City (New York Review Books, $16.95), now reissued in Thomas Teal’s 1976 translation.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harper's Magazine,
23 Sep. 2024
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Once the answers become ossified, the questions become rhetorical, and the education ceases to cultivate the child’s capacities.—
Ray Ravaglia,
Forbes,
1 Oct. 2024
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What were once relatively cordial rivalries have calcified into something more vitriolic, those executives said.—
Tariq Panja,
New York Times,
17 May 2024
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The coronavirus pandemic and changes in drinking patterns have calcified such trends.—
Ali Watkins,
New York Times,
24 Dec. 2024
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Spritzing the end of the thread with hairspray will stiffen it just enough to be able to be threaded more easily, but keeps enough flexibility to be used.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
5 Jan. 2025
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Restrictive cardiomyopathy: Another rare type, this causes heart muscles to stiffen, which in turn prevents the heart’s ventricles from filling with enough blood to pump throughout the body.—
Elizabeth Millard,
TIME,
18 Dec. 2024
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He was petrified by the thought of dying of cancer or some other disease whose senselessness disgusted him.—
Ian Buruma,
The New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2025
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Medusa was known in ancient Greece for petrifying anyone who dared to look her in the eye, and has been seen as a personification of madness.—
Sarah Belmont,
ARTnews.com,
17 Dec. 2024
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Antonio ended up in intensive care at Dell’s Children's Medical Center and was gaunt, his blood coagulating.—
Emiliano Tahui Gómez,
Austin American-Statesman,
24 Nov. 2024
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As a preventative course of treatment, people with the blood disorder receive weekly injections of factor IX to enable their blood to coagulate, said GOSH.—
Julia O'Driscoll, The Week UK,
theweek,
27 June 2024
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It's primarily made up of water, ammonium phosphate — an ingredient commonly found in fertilizer — and pink coloring, though it's thickened with gum to improve accuracy for aerial drops.—
Terry Dickerson,
NBC News,
16 Jan. 2025
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Reduce heat to medium-high and simmer, stirring occasionally, until thickened, about 5 minutes.—
Elizabeth Mervosh,
Southern Living,
11 Jan. 2025
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“Rigidify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rigidify. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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