as in conservative
a person with old-fashioned ideas
some old fossil who thinks that a boy and a girl shouldn't be together unsupervised until they are engaged
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Recent Examples of fossil
Many of the fossil animal bones are quite complete and at the time of excavation lay together as they were positioned in life.
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Briana Pobiner, The Conversation, 11 Apr. 2025
Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil’s surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath.
—Briana Pobiner, The Conversation, 11 Apr. 2025
The jawbone fragment, along with various animal fossils, was pulled up during a fishing expedition in the Penghu Channel, located near the Taiwan Strait, which once was dry land.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Apr. 2025
Scientists share video of strange shark-octopus encounter Scientists found a fossil of a Jurassic bird.
—Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2025
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Briana Pobiner, The Conversation, 11 Apr. 2025
Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil’s surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath.
—Briana Pobiner, The Conversation, 11 Apr. 2025
The jawbone fragment, along with various animal fossils, was pulled up during a fishing expedition in the Penghu Channel, located near the Taiwan Strait, which once was dry land.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Apr. 2025
Scientists share video of strange shark-octopus encounter Scientists found a fossil of a Jurassic bird.
—Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fossil
Noun
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The Cato Institute, a libertarian-leaning think tank, have mocked the administration for slapping tariffs on islands inhabited only by penguins, while echoing Pence and other conservatives.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
5 Apr. 2025
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Left wing-progressives, once skeptical of the status quo, have become stolid guardians of institutions, while right-wing conservatives – once champions of prudence – are tearing down fences.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
5 Apr. 2025
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Before the game, Padres president of baseball operations A.J. Preller said veteran pitcher Yu Darvish was progressing in playing catch, but there was no specific timetable for his return from elbow inflammation.—
Dennis Lin,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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The union represents nurses caring for patients' physical and mental health at veterans facilities around the country.—
Andrea Hsu,
NPR,
28 Mar. 2025
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These are people who know AI and have grown up with this stuff that these old fogies haven't.—
Alison Snyder,
Axios,
23 Feb. 2025
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And some of us older fogies, Joni Mitchell and Carole King.—
Lars Brandle,
Billboard,
10 Oct. 2023
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With his piano-pounding performances, wild vocals, bouffant hair and makeup, Little Richard burst onto the musical scene in the 1950s and shook up the stuffed shirts with a string of his hit songs that got both black and white people dancing.—
NBC News,
NBC News,
9 May 2020
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Karen Knorr’s photos of the private members’ clubs of London in the early 1980s are full of stuffed shirts wearing gleaming brogues.—
The Economist,
The Economist,
25 Feb. 2020
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“Fossil.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fossil. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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