Example Sentences

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When climate models leave out calcifying plankton, they may miss key steps in the global carbon cycle.

From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2026

But amid the platitudes, sadness and shock is calcifying into anger and tension.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2025

More than any other company, Marvel has shown us how too many so-called event movies have a way of calcifying into a steady drip of business as usual.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2023

They know that, in special compartments, corals concentrate ions along with proteins and other molecules to make a slurry known as calcifying fluid.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 24, 2023

Both lungs contained calcifying tubercle; the abdomen was loaded with fat; the spleen was soft; the kidneys were engorged, but otherwise healthy.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)