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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
ossify .
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Examples
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Once the left, usually, have defined a group as victims, the attitude ossifies into an unbreachable wall protecting its members from all rational thought.
Archive 2007-09-02 Newmania 2007
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Once the left, usually, have defined a group as victims, the attitude ossifies into an unbreachable wall protecting its members from all rational thought.
Archive 2007-09-01 Newmania 2007
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I believe strongly in the distasteful effect of "kipple", the crap that tends to accumulate on a Web site as it ossifies.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Once the left, usually, have defined a group as victims, the attitude ossifies into an unbreachable wall protecting its members from all rational thought.
Sense and Sensibility Newmania 2007
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I believe strongly in the distasteful effect of "kipple", the crap that tends to accumulate on a Web site as it ossifies.
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The parts of the skull, like those of the rest of the animal framework, are developed in succession the base of the skull is formed before its sides and roof; it is converted into cartilage earlier and more completely than the sides and roof: and the cartilaginous base ossifies, and becomes soldered into one piece long before the roof.
Essays 2007
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Judging from both 2000 and 2004, the Democratic candidate will pick up several tenths of a point after everybody stops paying attention and the conventional wisdom ossifies about how big the margin was.
Final Results: 2004 Presidential Election Steve Sailer 2004
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Judging from both 2000 and 2004, the Democratic candidate will pick up several tenths of a point after everybody stops paying attention and the conventional wisdom ossifies about how big the margin was.
Archive 2004-12-12 Steve Sailer 2004
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He was a bit snappish in his old age, but I think that he was always receptive to new ideas and changes in perception, and that's what makes the difference between a great correspondent or reporter and one who merely ossifies with age.
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“A variation resulting from incomplete fusion of a lower sternal segment as it ossifies from separate left and right centers.”
206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990
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