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coarsen
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The process is also called phase-ordering dynamics, or domain growth or coarsening, and the study of it requires tools from a number of the physical sciences.
Kinetics of phase transitions by SciTech Book News
John, giving the McTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival, blamed them for coarsening youngsters' ambitions.
Mindless, witless, corrupting, vulgar; BROADCASTER HUMPHRYS BLASTS ... by The Mirror (London, England)
There's another, more commonsense view: a diet of violence fed to us in our own homes - and we're not talking about the cartoon capers of Tom and Jerry, but the extreme and believable violence of programmes like the stomach-churning Messiah - risks coarsening and deadening our attitudes to the suffering of others.
The violence pumped into our homes; comment by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
 
 
 
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