fossil

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 on the Web Both their style and wear and tear may render glass blocks into fossils. Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2024 This dig kit from the science pros at National Geographic lets kids tap into their love of fossils, prehistory, and, well, dirt. Christa Joanna Lee, Glamour, 10 Oct. 2024 While researchers had discovered snake fossils with two limbs, no fossil had ever shown all four limbs—until Martill and his team’s discovery. Scott Travers, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024 The section on geologic time explores how educators like Hitchcock described estimations of the earth’s age by delineating geologic strata in long, colorful maps, as well as painstakingly drawing assemblages of fossils to understand and disseminate the human discoveries of ancient life. Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for fossil 
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Noun
  • 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
  • In this race, Donald Trump is certainly not a conservative.
    Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • And some of us older fogies, Joni Mitchell and Carole King.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2023
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 9 Nov. 2024.

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