Definition of "fossilizing" []

• Present participle of fossilize. (verb)

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• "French culinary movement Le Fooding has championed the goals of these restaurants, as well as criticized the influence of the Michelin Guide, accusing it of "fossilizing" French cuisine."
• "She found meaning in the opportunity to open her own restaurant in the spot where a bankrupt one had been fossilizing."
• "Those are things that must be driven by industry because prescriptive policy mandates would quite likely have the unintended consequence of fossilizing cloud technologies while they are still in their early stages of development."