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
The findings have inspired researchers to broaden the search for fossils of the earliest amniotes, and their close relatives, to the southern continents, Sumida said.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 22 May 2025
Beaches aren’t typically hotspots for these kinds of fossils unless something is disturbing the seafloor nearby and carrying the remains to shore.
—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
The team is patiently digging up the fossils of thousands of Pachyrhinosaurus dinosaurs killed on a single day in Alberta's Pipestone Creek.
—Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
Both are now listed as co-authors on a new study of the fossils, published in the journal Nature last week.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2025
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 22 May 2025
Beaches aren’t typically hotspots for these kinds of fossils unless something is disturbing the seafloor nearby and carrying the remains to shore.
—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
The team is patiently digging up the fossils of thousands of Pachyrhinosaurus dinosaurs killed on a single day in Alberta's Pipestone Creek.
—Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
Both are now listed as co-authors on a new study of the fossils, published in the journal Nature last week.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fossil
Noun
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The protests highlighted, for many conservatives, the consequences of the state’s left-leaning approach to progressive criminal justice reform and immigration.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten , Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
14 June 2025
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The result is not so much a win for conservatives or liberals as for legal stability.—
Noah Feldman,
Mercury News,
12 June 2025
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Alex Caruso, one of the team’s veterans, was a bench guy, until he was tasked with defending Nikola Jokić during the Thunder’s series against the Denver Nuggets, and did about as good a job as anyone has ever done of shutting Jokić down.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
8 June 2025
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Twenty-two a day has been a call-to-action statistic, although the most recent data from the 2024 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report (using 2022 numbers) puts it at 17.6 veterans committing suicide per day, which is significantly higher than among non-veteran adults.—
Denise Crosby,
Chicago Tribune,
8 June 2025
Noun
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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 Jun. 2025.
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