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
Her fossil showcased a mixture of humanlike and apelike traits and provided proof that ancient human relatives walked upright 3.2 million years ago.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2025
Vendors will offer beads, minerals, gemstones, custom jewelry, fossils, artifacts, and metaphysical stones.
—Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2025
Researchers from the University of Reading investigated 479 species of primates –178 extinct, via fossils, and 301 living – to track how species richness, climate tolerance and geographic range changed over time and across the long-established and studied evolutionary branches.
—New Atlas, 7 Aug. 2025
One fist-sized rock held over a thousand microscopic fossils, including soft-bodied animals that are rarely fossilized, John wrote.
—Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 5 Aug. 2025
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2025
Vendors will offer beads, minerals, gemstones, custom jewelry, fossils, artifacts, and metaphysical stones.
—Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2025
Researchers from the University of Reading investigated 479 species of primates –178 extinct, via fossils, and 301 living – to track how species richness, climate tolerance and geographic range changed over time and across the long-established and studied evolutionary branches.
—New Atlas, 7 Aug. 2025
One fist-sized rock held over a thousand microscopic fossils, including soft-bodied animals that are rarely fossilized, John wrote.
—Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 5 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fossil
Noun
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While many social media users said the new logo erased the brand's old country feel, some conservatives suggested that the rebrand was rooted in politics.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
28 Aug. 2025
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To conservatives that believe DEI policies are racist, avoiding enforcement is the modern day literacy test.—
Jon McGowan,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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However, the seven-year veteran has put enough on tape.—
Bobby Krivitsky,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Dumars got to work quickly, swinging for the fences with trades to bring in veteran guard Jordan Poole and to draft two players out of the lottery, Oklahoma guard Jeremiah Fears with the No. 7 selection and Maryland center Derik Queen with the No. 13 pick.—
Alex Kirschenbaum,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Aug. 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
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 4 Sep. 2025.
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