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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Context: Cruz, who was first elected to the Senate in 2012, rose to fame in Congress as a staunch conservative.Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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In this race, Donald Trump is certainly not a conservative.Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Byard, though, scratched his head at that particular call, a team captain and ninth-year veteran who wasn’t so sure the Bears had put themselves in the best position to win.Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2024
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The veteran journalist is expected to retain her roles as NBC News‘ chief Washington correspondent and chief foreign affairs correspondent, and will take up a broader assignment within NBCU’s news operations, reporting for both NBC News and MSNBC.Brian Steinberg, Variety, 29 Oct. 2024
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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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The parents—a dapper young fogy with ramrod posture and a soulful, slightly rumpled bluestocking—stand behind two tidy little girls in matching sailor suits.Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 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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