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
This conclusion was based on slicing through the fossil's limb bones to examine the growth rings.
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Ari Daniel, NPR, 30 Oct. 2025
But the Nanotyrannus specimen is 100% complete, which is extraordinarily rare in the fossil record, Napoli noted.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
The 67 million-year-old fossils, found in the Hell Creek Formation in Montana, are the skeleton of small-bodied dinosaur called Nanotyrannus lancensis from the late Cretaceous period, according to a paper published Thursday in Nature.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2025
While being 100% certain is a bold stance in paleontology, the researchers are confident in their findings, after examining more than 200 tyrannosaur fossils in this study.
—New Atlas, 30 Oct. 2025
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Ari Daniel, NPR, 30 Oct. 2025
But the Nanotyrannus specimen is 100% complete, which is extraordinarily rare in the fossil record, Napoli noted.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
The 67 million-year-old fossils, found in the Hell Creek Formation in Montana, are the skeleton of small-bodied dinosaur called Nanotyrannus lancensis from the late Cretaceous period, according to a paper published Thursday in Nature.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2025
While being 100% certain is a bold stance in paleontology, the researchers are confident in their findings, after examining more than 200 tyrannosaur fossils in this study.
—New Atlas, 30 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fossil
Noun
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The measure also outperformed expectations in the conservative-leaning Inland Empire.—
Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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Donors poured tens of thousands of dollars into one Boise City Council race where two progressive former allies faced off against a local conservative.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Anyone who doesn’t hold the same nostalgic hankering for veteran actresses holding court with one-woman shows might not be blamed for opting out.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
2 Nov. 2025
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He was released after a few weeks in jail when filmmaker Jen Gatien pledged her $2 million Manhattan apartment where the combat veteran was living as collateral for a bond.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 Nov. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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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
Noun
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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 6 Nov. 2025.
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