as in archaic
having passed its time of use or usefulness
fossilized notions about the proper place of women in society
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Recent Examples of fossilized
Witchy Friend Heretic Häxan, $125 For fans of the occult, Heretic’s Haxan offers just the rich, embery combination of fossilized amber, oakmoss and musks.
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Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 25 Nov. 2025
Archaeological digs have unearthed ancient Greek winemaking vessels, while fossilized remains of grape species found during other excavations date back to the 11th to 9th centuries BC.
—Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 17 Nov. 2025
Other team members continued conducting surface and CT imaging of the skeleton and studied fossilized footprints.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
The Denisovans are an extinct subspecies of archaic humans, which were discovered in 2010 after researchers found a fossilized finger in the Denisova Cave in Siberia.
—Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
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Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 25 Nov. 2025
Archaeological digs have unearthed ancient Greek winemaking vessels, while fossilized remains of grape species found during other excavations date back to the 11th to 9th centuries BC.
—Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 17 Nov. 2025
Other team members continued conducting surface and CT imaging of the skeleton and studied fossilized footprints.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
The Denisovans are an extinct subspecies of archaic humans, which were discovered in 2010 after researchers found a fossilized finger in the Denisova Cave in Siberia.
—Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fossilized
Adjective
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Trump’s 60-day suspension gives Congress the cover to repeal the archaic shipping law.—
Editorial Board,
Washington Post,
18 Mar. 2026
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With news breaking that Meghan was pregnant with their son Archie, she and Harry were widely viewed as the fresh new faces of an archaic institution.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
11 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Technicians will replace obsolete components, including transistors and rectifiers, before rebuilding and testing each unit.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Apr. 2026
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The six-story, 470,000-square-foot building, bordered by Eighth, Ninth, G and H streets, had long been derided by Sacramento Superior Court and city leaders as too obsolete, undersized, and unsafe to conduct court business.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
8 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Each advancement made the baseline antiquated.—
Alex Israel,
Fortune,
4 Apr. 2026
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These antiquated institutions barely provide heat in the winter and cannot cool down in the summer.—
Steve Zeidman,
New York Daily News,
2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The doctoral student identified more than 600 previously unknown sets of Native American dice from 45 prehistoric archaeological sites in the western United States from the Late Pleistocene until after the period of European contact.—
Taylor Nicioli,
CNN Money,
8 Apr. 2026
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While most species evolve dramatically over millennia, giant salamanders represent a direct link to a prehistoric world.—
Samantha Agate,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Apr. 2026
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He was born in Oxford and raised in a village outside Salisbury, a medieval city not far from Stonehenge.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
5 Apr. 2026
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Whitacre wrote the choral work, originally commissioned by the Los Angeles Master Chorale and recorded in 2020, using a text by his friend, poet and medieval history professor Charles Anthony Silvestri, on the faculty at Washburn University.—
Eric E. Harrison,
Arkansas Online,
4 Apr. 2026
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“Fossilized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fossilized. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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