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
The set of fossils included much of the skull, fore and hind limbs, ribs and vertebrae, and included a fossilized bone of a crocodile leg pressed against its lower jaws.
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2025
The pinnacles seem endless yet no two are exactly the same — like fossilized snowflakes.
—Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Those businesses that don’t evolve or ditch those fossilized tools are headed for extinction.
—Oyku Ilgar, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 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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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2025
The pinnacles seem endless yet no two are exactly the same — like fossilized snowflakes.
—Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Those businesses that don’t evolve or ditch those fossilized tools are headed for extinction.
—Oyku Ilgar, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 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
Adjective
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Rejecting the streamlining and modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn artfully reproduces the epic’s formal qualities—meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance—and in so doing restores to Homer’s masterwork its archaic grandeur.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Nearly 20 years later, the law may seem archaic, the Enquirer previously reported, and may be a violation of the First Amendment.—
Chad Murphy,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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And just because there’s a new art form like AI, doesn’t mean that the old art form becomes obsolete, right?—
Diana Lodderhose,
Deadline,
7 Nov. 2025
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The champions of unfettered AI talk as though copyright law is a nuisance, something quaint and obsolete.—
Gerard Scimeca,
Mercury News,
7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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But the company is back on a strong growth trajectory, fueled by the AI boom that could possibly disrupt the antiquated insurance industry that has incumbents with large market share, but are slow to evolve.—
Todd Gordon,
CNBC,
4 Nov. 2025
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On the other hand, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and a backup cam kept the cheap sports car from feeling too antiquated to bear.—
Charles Singh,
USA Today,
27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Large muskies, prehistoric-looking fish with canine-style teeth, lurk there.—
Jamie Thompson,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
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In Scotland, archaeologists found evidence of a prehistoric village at a future golf course earlier this year.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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The catastrophe, which took place about noon local time, sent one person working on a medieval tower to a hospital while another remained trapped under rubble and debris at the Torre dei Conti.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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The Torre dei Conti was built by Pope Innocent III for his family and serves as a classic example of a medieval tower-house in Rome.—
Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Fossilized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fossilized. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.
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