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
Cracking the rock time code Dinosaur fossils were first found in the San Juan Basin beginning in the mid- to late 1800s.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
The stomach mass within the fossil contained some fish-like and cephalopod pieces, Massare said.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2025
Now, however, a study has found that this identification was wrong, and the fossils actually belong to a species new to science.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2025
Today the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum features more than 3.5 million fossils from 650 species.
—Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 6 Oct. 2025
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
The stomach mass within the fossil contained some fish-like and cephalopod pieces, Massare said.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2025
Now, however, a study has found that this identification was wrong, and the fossils actually belong to a species new to science.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2025
Today the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum features more than 3.5 million fossils from 650 species.
—Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 6 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fossil
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The videos align with conservatives’ push to teach a positive view of America’s past and with the state’s rules on teaching about race and gender.—
Jennifer Smith Richards,
ProPublica,
22 Oct. 2025
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To be a conservative is, among other things, is thus to reject moral relativism.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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Two veteran data journalists are launching a new investigative publication to cover rising authoritarianism from the shadowy corners of the internet.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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Under the command of the unflappable Ernest McSorley, its veteran captain, the Fitz broke shipping records and tallied enormous profits.—
Kevin Duchschere,
Boston Herald,
26 Oct. 2025
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Old fogey-ish, ungrateful and stupid.—
Katie Hafner,
Scientific American,
10 Sep. 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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This man performed in all of Shakespeare’s plays, Assumed all parts from mossbacks to boys young.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Sep. 2019
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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 29 Oct. 2025.
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