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Sheinbaum and her allies call the shake-up a necessary makeover of an ossified system riven with corruption and nepotism.

The proposed cleanup and redevelopment of this ossified power plant joins a growing collection of such projects across the nation.

Nor can you, apparently, be a successful, divorced, outspoken biracial American career woman and thrive among the hierarchically ossified, stiff-upper-lip royal family.

“It’s an ossified bastion of stodgy old engineers,” he said.

Since then, the sprawling content business that the New York Times Book Review mystery columnist Sarah Weinman has called the true-crime industrial complex has matured and ossified.