petrification
- a variation of petrifaction.
Example Sentences
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Yet the canonization of so-called experimental films in universities is precisely the reason both for these films’ endurance and for their petrification.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 21, 2016
Just as those earlier gods failed, Lemann suggests, Google is inexorably succumbing the petrification of bureaucracy, age and size.
From Forbes ● Nov. 28, 2014
It’s finding a structure that leads to growth and transformation, not petrification.
From Forbes ● Nov. 28, 2014
Although she "enjoyed a real cold petrification," the debut was a major success.
From Time Magazine Archive
What lay ahead of me was worse than petrification.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
