How To Use Ossify In A Sentence
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This is the static prodigy phenomenon, where early gains ossify into a state of frowning and manfully borne stasis, a condition known in sports science as Huddlestone's Mooch.
Enjoying the fleeting thrill of fragile prodigies is a national habit | Barney Ronay
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The results of an osteoplastic periostitis are frequently met with in the bones of the foot, and are described by veterinary writers under such headings as 'Pedal Exostoses,' 'Ossifying Ostitis,' and 'Pedal
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
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Both Dewey and Eliot are suggesting that without experiment in art and literature, the "supervention of novelty," the great works of the past merely ossify into a "tradition" that no longer inspires artists and writers to, in effect, outdo the "existing monuments," to bring those monuments into active communication with the present.
John Dewey's *Art as Experience*
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Here, we have shown the pilae ossifying dorsally, as an irregular sheet of bone running roughly between the pila antotica and a similar band of cartilage which comes off the top of the otic capsule, the taenia marginalis.
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It is easy for the mind to ossify.
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Thanks toleaders like Brewer, the police state ossifying along the border will continue to grow.
John Dougherty: Facts, Not Fear
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Moreover, of all the bones of the hand, the ungual phalanges are the first to ossify.
II. Osteology. 6b. 3. The Phalanges of the Hand
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The zygomatic bone is generally described as ossifying from three centersone for the malar and two for the orbital portion; these appear about the eighth week and fuse about the fifth month of fetal life.
II. Osteology. 5b. 4. The Zygomatic Bone
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National insurance was never meant to be indistinguishable from tax; it was meant to be a system of insurance in which all paid in to guard against life's major risks – unemployment, disability and old age – but then allowed to ossify.
We deserve a fair society, but it won't be created by a vendetta against the poor
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It has become a corrupt text, with countless additions, cuts and changes ossifying into tradition over the years.
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The flat bones ossify directly from such fibrous tissue rather than from intermediary cartilage.
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Woody Allen, like i say, i think of him in similar ways–went from funny-angry to just angry, real exploitive jerk in many ways, and god knows he logged in enough hours on the psych’s couch. i dunno. i think maybe it is a special hazard for people who become famous, but who knows–some people just kind of ossify at a certain point.
Harlan Ellison Gropes Connie Willis
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In later years some of these joints completely ossify (are converted to solid bone material).
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The neglect of the public realm was presided over and encouraged by an ossifying Conservative administration, while the Prince of Wales made gnomic pronouncements on the sidelines.
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It was intelligently designed so it could remain viable and fresh, rather than -- as people often do -- ossifying into a self-parody as it aged.
Why the Constitution Congress read was just fine
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His basic verdict is that Tsongas was a lousy candidate, nominated largely on the basis of her husband's reputation, and picked by an "ossifying" local political machine that hadn't faced a real race in decades.
Poll: Hillary Way Ahead With Dems ��� Match-Up With Rudy Is Close
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Until some settled outcome is arrived at, we won't agree codes of behaviour: but the internet is already ossifying.
The web may be lawless, but it won't stay that way
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The postcranial skeleton, and especially the vertebrae, carpals and tarsals, were very slow to ossify.
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The postcranial skeleton, and especially the vertebrae, carpals and tarsals, were very slow to ossify.
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Enchondroma may be composed of osteoid tissue, such as is found in the ossifying callous between the bone and the periosteum, and, according to Virchow, then takes the name of osteochondroma.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Unlike MTV's slowly ossifying "Real World" series or even the over-scripted melodrama of Bravo's "Real Housewives" franchise, "Jersey Shore" is genuine.
From GTL to grenades: A 'Jersey Shore' glossary
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To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.
Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
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Fossilized embryos are rarely discovered, because their bones only begin to ossify late in development.
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It is easy for the mind to ossify.
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He goes on to insist he believes in a meritocracy and that achieving this is ‘an economic necessity’, adding: ‘Economies that do not bring out the best in people will ossify and fall behind’.
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The society, a professional organization of doctors and a few scientists, was self-contained and moribund, an ossifying Manhattan social club.
The Emperor of All Maladies
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Once you ossify guidelines into regulations governing payment, you run a great risk of freezing health care advancement.
He's Not an Economist, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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It should make interesting reading for those who think that the sole purpose of an Academy is to ossify a language and prevent any change.
The Spanish Royal Academy
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On Thursday, an ossifying Tiger Woods posted a grim 77 in the opening round of the PGA Championship, a tournament he has won four times.
The Yankees Can't Hide Their Wrinkles
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If we did this, our cities would stand still, ossify and die.
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The flat bones ossify directly from such fibrous tissue rather than from intermediary cartilage.
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The results of an osteoplastic periostitis are frequently met with in the bones of the foot, and are described by veterinary writers under such headings as 'Pedal Exostoses,' 'Ossifying Ostitis,' and 'Pedal
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
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It reckons that rationing would ossify the farm industry.
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Without experiment (without what in some ways could be called "progress" in the arts), art would ossify into dead monuments we are to extoll for their putative greatness but that would not provoke the kind of experiential engagement Dewey thinks is art's ultimate validation.
John Dewey's *Art as Experience*
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Like ringbone, sidebone tends to develop in older horses; in fact, it's considered almost a normal rite of passage for the lateral cartilages to ossify to some degree over time, and the process is only designated as sidebone when it is premature or happens abnormally fast and leads to lameness.
TheHorse.com News
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The problem with union rights requiring judges and courts to uphold them is that they ossify and become the target of lawyers and others who wish to destroy them.
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The joint between the incus and stapes is likewise a cartilagenous joint, with a tendency to ossify in older humans.
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The party is both fanatical and well-informed, and thus unlikely either to "ossify" or "grow soft" and collapse.
Doublethink
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How this imaginative and commercially successful development was allowed to stand still, indeed to ossify, in the hands of its originator is one of the most remarkable stories of industrial history.
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It reckons that rationing would ossify the farm industry.
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When heritage and its interpretation is allowed to ossify the past and the present begin to disconnect.
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These are the instantly ossifying narratives in the Sunday shooting death of Kansas late-term abortionist George Tiller versus the Monday shootings of two Arkansas military recruiters.
Thank You Prisident Obama
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It is capable of continuous creativity rather than, like other civilizations, ossifying and losing the capacity of creative adjustment to new challenges.
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The coronal, lambdoidal, sagittal, and squamosal sutures close clinically between six to 12 months of age but do not ossify completely until after 30 years of age.
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Because of deep specialization, the scientific enterprise has a built-in tendency to ossify.
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This book, his greatest (though he claimed to prefer two of his more refined and ponderous works), is lovable enough, unsettling enough and dissatisfying enough -- altogether granular enough -- that I hereby make the following prediction: "Huckleberry Finn" will never overripen, nor grow stale, nor ossify.
Books on Southern Humor
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At the same time, sure, "ossify" isn't exactly common parlance in most of our everyday exchanges, but it's not like it's a totally insane archaic thing that I dredged out of the OED, nor is Beau Geste this weird name that only the deepest scholars of French Algeria would know about (the movie was pretty big in its time ...).
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