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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
Officials also discovered fossilized vegetation in the bore hole near the bone.
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Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 11 July 2025
For decades, visitors have flocked to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science to see the fossilized bones of prehistoric behemoths like Diplodocus and Stegosaurus on display.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2025
Paleontologists have found fossilized remains of a giant possum-like mammal that lived 60 million years ago.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 24 June 2025
The 18-piece range for men and women adopts the thematic motifs of Y-3’s fall/winter 2025 creative direction, including artworks inspired by the Japanese ink techniques of Suibokuga, which emulate fossilized amber.
—Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 11 July 2025
For decades, visitors have flocked to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science to see the fossilized bones of prehistoric behemoths like Diplodocus and Stegosaurus on display.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2025
Paleontologists have found fossilized remains of a giant possum-like mammal that lived 60 million years ago.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 24 June 2025
The 18-piece range for men and women adopts the thematic motifs of Y-3’s fall/winter 2025 creative direction, including artworks inspired by the Japanese ink techniques of Suibokuga, which emulate fossilized amber.
—Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fossilized
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Logging later resumed under an archaic mandate and approval processes that a past Cal Fire director and others say still violates key laws such as CEQA and works at cross purposes to the missions of other agencies.—
John P. O’Brien,
Mercury News,
13 Sep. 2025
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But Vermont, unfortunately, has a lot of archaic politics that allow a lot of abuse of wildlife.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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While traditional wisdom may say to avoid white linen pants after Labor Day, fashion-forward travelers ditched that antiquated rule years ago.—
Genevieve Cepeda,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Sep. 2025
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So there is nothing to displace the antiquated image of a pyramid of boxes that remains implanted in our brains.—
Steve Denning,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Take-home tests and essays are becoming obsolete.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
12 Sep. 2025
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By learning from these craftspeople, AIs can now replace them in offering advice, thus threatening to render the original human experts obsolete.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Research conducted at Zvejnieki has often challenged longheld assumptions about gender roles in prehistoric Europe.—
Sarah Durn,
Popular Science,
11 Sep. 2025
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Towering over its modern relatives, this prehistoric predator was not only the largest species of lion ever recorded, but also one of the top apex predators of the Ice Age.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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But there’s one particularly captivating stretch near Santa Margherita Ligure, between Portofino’s iconic piazzetta and Rapallo’s picturesque carrugi (the town’s warren of narrow medieval streets).—
Francesca Longoni,
Architectural Digest,
16 Sep. 2025
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There are visual references to refugees, immigrants, medieval morality plays, New Orleans funerals.—
David Hochman,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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“Fossilized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fossilized. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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