Ossifies

Once the left, usually, have defined a group as victims, the attitude ossifies into an unbreachable wall protecting its members from all rational thought. ❋ Newmania (2007)

I believe strongly in the distasteful effect of "kipple", the crap that tends to accumulate on a Web site as it ossifies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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. ❋ Steve Sailer (2004)

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. ❋ Unknown (1993)

Occasionally a sternebra ossifies from more than one point of origin. ❋ Kathy Reichs (1990)

“A variation resulting from incomplete fusion of a lower sternal segment as it ossifies from separate left and right centers.” ❋ Kathy Reichs (1990)

The cartilaginous sternum then ossifies, meaning it turns to bone. ❋ Kathy Reichs (1990)

The mandibular arch in the developing fish is abruptly angled, as in the embryo of Tetrapoda; the upper prong of it ossifies into the palatine and pterygoid; at the angle is formed the quadrate (jugal, Cuvier), and to the quadrate is articulated the lower jaw, which ossifies round the lower prong or Meckel's cartilage. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The cranial section of the chorda itself shows no sign of segmentation; but later on the cranial portion of the chorda-sheath ossifies, like the vertebræ, from several centres. ❋ Unknown (N/A)