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
One explanation Al-Jaber cited for the switch is AI data centers, which have become Big Oil’s go-to justification for a rapid buildout of new fossil infrastructure.
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Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 4 Nov. 2025
But none of the scenarios would have consistently produced the injuries seen on the fossils, according to the study.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
From days spent in remote desert landscapes to countless hours spent slowly removing a fossil from stone, paleontologists can spend years working on a single discovery.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2025
This study demonstrated that dentin microwear can reveal dietary differences between leaf-eating sloths and insect-consuming armadillos, giving us confidence that these tools could reveal dietary information from ground sloth fossils.
—Aditya Reddy Kurre, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
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Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 4 Nov. 2025
But none of the scenarios would have consistently produced the injuries seen on the fossils, according to the study.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
From days spent in remote desert landscapes to countless hours spent slowly removing a fossil from stone, paleontologists can spend years working on a single discovery.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2025
This study demonstrated that dentin microwear can reveal dietary differences between leaf-eating sloths and insect-consuming armadillos, giving us confidence that these tools could reveal dietary information from ground sloth fossils.
—Aditya Reddy Kurre, The Conversation, 21 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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The agreement includes bipartisan bills worked out by the Senate Appropriations Committee to fund parts of government — food aid, veterans programs and the legislative branch, among other things.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
10 Nov. 2025
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Mills and the Texans’ offense scored a touchdown on all three of their fourth-quarter drives, including the veteran quarterback capping a 14-play, 93-yard drive with a 14-yard run to complete the comeback and give Houston a 30-29 lead — its first of the game.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
10 Nov. 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
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
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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 13 Nov. 2025.
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