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
That also explains why it’s named after a fossil of a cephalopod.
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Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
In light of the parking lot discovery, paleontologists were inspired to go back and look at available satellite and elevation data to date all other fossils previously found within the Denver metro area, including a Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops and Torosaurus, and other major fossil deposits.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 17 July 2025
Due to the cave's protective qualities, fossils, like shark teeth, are well-preserved over time.
—Ruby Grisin, The Courier-Journal, 24 July 2025
Vendors will offer beads, minerals, gemstones, custom jewelry, fossils, artifacts, and metaphysical stones.
—Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 July 2025
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Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
In light of the parking lot discovery, paleontologists were inspired to go back and look at available satellite and elevation data to date all other fossils previously found within the Denver metro area, including a Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops and Torosaurus, and other major fossil deposits.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 17 July 2025
Due to the cave's protective qualities, fossils, like shark teeth, are well-preserved over time.
—Ruby Grisin, The Courier-Journal, 24 July 2025
Vendors will offer beads, minerals, gemstones, custom jewelry, fossils, artifacts, and metaphysical stones.
—Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fossil
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Or is this intentionally playing to at best, a conservative, at worst, a racist ideal system that is pervasively growing in America?—
Leah Asmelash,
CNN Money,
2 Aug. 2025
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But many of the Trump administration's demands to schools have been tied to longstanding Republican grievances with higher education, which many conservatives view as too liberal.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
31 July 2025
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The veteran rock star and his interior designer wife, Emilie Keuning, subsequently gave the place a full makeover, and, after hitting the market in June with a nearly $14 million ask, the house quickly sold to Pitt at a substantial discount.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
7 Aug. 2025
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Amy Powell, the Paramount and Amazon veteran who joined Vice last May as president of the company’s studio division, intends to use the new financial resources on staffing, acquisitions and development.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
7 Aug. 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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And some of us older fogies, Joni Mitchell and Carole King.—
Lars Brandle,
Billboard,
10 Oct. 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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“Fossil.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fossil. Accessed 14 Aug. 2025.
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