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as in to freeze
to become physically firm or solid
water solidifying into ice
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2
as in to form
to take on a definite form
my ideas on this topic are just starting to solidify
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Recent Examples of solidify
Their place at No. 1 was solidified when Miles Kelly hit a go-ahead 3-pointer with 30 seconds left Saturday for a 53-51 victory over then-No. 6 Tennessee.
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Dave Skretta, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2025
To further amplify and solidify the program, the Italian brand has also established the Miu Miu Women’s Tales Committee, which includes Prada and talents from across the film industry.
—Samantha Conti, WWD, 27 Jan. 2025
That’s because the cell walls of their growing cells can’t solidify in cold conditions, creating weakened wood rings that turn blue when the wood is sampled and stained.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
But at this moment all that mattered was the trophy because Ohio State had just solidified itself as the best team in the country.
—Cameron Teague Robinson, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
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Dave Skretta, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2025
To further amplify and solidify the program, the Italian brand has also established the Miu Miu Women’s Tales Committee, which includes Prada and talents from across the film industry.
—Samantha Conti, WWD, 27 Jan. 2025
That’s because the cell walls of their growing cells can’t solidify in cold conditions, creating weakened wood rings that turn blue when the wood is sampled and stained.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
But at this moment all that mattered was the trophy because Ohio State had just solidified itself as the best team in the country.
—Cameron Teague Robinson, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for solidify
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Inaugural ceremonies began at 11:30am. Because of freezing weather in D.C., the ceremony took place inside the Capitol Rotunda.—
Avery Lotz,
Axios,
20 Jan. 2025
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Across the country, including in the New York area, temperatures plummeted below freezing on Monday.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
20 Jan. 2025
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After a brief involvement with Adolph Zukor’s Paramount-Artcraft Pictures, a precursor to Paramount Pictures, Ince formed another outfit in Culver City, Ince Studios, which ran from 1919 to 1924.—
Ryan Gajewski,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Jan. 2025
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On Sunday morning, massive lines of Trump supporters formed to get inside the inaugural eve event, braving frigid weather and intermittent showers.—
Washington Examiner Staff, Naomi Lim,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
19 Jan. 2025
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These processes need to be sufficiently hardened by providers to prevent trivial abuse by these attackers and to maintain the security benefits of using passkeys.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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Let the wax harden before popping the waxy dryer lint firestarters out of the carton.—
Rabekah Henderson,
Southern Living,
19 Jan. 2025
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As mainstream medical opinion crystallized in favor of vaccination, the combination of liberal political values, holistic ideas about the body, and alternative health entrepreneurship shaped vaccine resistance after the Jacobson ruling.—
Helen L. Murphey / Made by History,
TIME,
29 Jan. 2025
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Two hours later, when news broke of the Palisades Fire, that morning unease crystallized into stark reality.—
Barbara A. Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Jan. 2025
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Spritzing the end of the thread with hairspray will stiffen it just enough to be able to be threaded more easily, but keeps enough flexibility to be used.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
5 Jan. 2025
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Restrictive cardiomyopathy: Another rare type, this causes heart muscles to stiffen, which in turn prevents the heart’s ventricles from filling with enough blood to pump throughout the body.—
Elizabeth Millard,
TIME,
18 Dec. 2024
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“Solidify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/solidify. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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