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
However, the identity of the animal that left the fossils has remained a mystery, even as it [was] declared BC’s provincial fossil in 2023.
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Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2025
The vegetation found in the fossil deposit suggests multiple tsunamis occurred within the span of two million years, reports Hannah Richter for Science.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2025
The fossils are estimated to be 233 million years old.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2025
Marine fossils and rock fragments found in southeastern Missouri appear to have been deposited there by a massive wave generated by the asteroid hitting what is now Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.
—Francisca Oboh Ikuenobe, The Conversation, 20 May 2025
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Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2025
The vegetation found in the fossil deposit suggests multiple tsunamis occurred within the span of two million years, reports Hannah Richter for Science.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2025
The fossils are estimated to be 233 million years old.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2025
Marine fossils and rock fragments found in southeastern Missouri appear to have been deposited there by a massive wave generated by the asteroid hitting what is now Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.
—Francisca Oboh Ikuenobe, The Conversation, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fossil
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The protests highlighted, for many conservatives, the consequences of the state’s left-leaning approach to progressive criminal justice reform and immigration.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten , Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
14 June 2025
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The result is not so much a win for conservatives or liberals as for legal stability.—
Noah Feldman,
Mercury News,
12 June 2025
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Vance, a Marine veteran, is touring a multi-agency Federal Joint Operations Center as well as a Federal Mobile Command Center.—
Sarah Beth Hensley,
ABC News,
20 June 2025
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According to Whitney Decker, Travis Decker, a veteran, was suffering from mental health issues at the time.—
Sophie Clark,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 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 30 Jun. 2025.
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