as in conservatives
a person with old-fashioned ideas
those mossbacks at the intelligence agency didn't get the memo that the world had changed
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And so the podcast’s producers, perhaps intuiting that the dialogue experiment with conservatives is failing, occasionally slot in friendlier agents of power, Hollywood types, with whom Newsom can discuss the finer points of things like tax incentives to film in the state of California.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026 -
Aside from the super-majority of conservatives, the legal and environmental landscapes have changed dramatically in the last 20 years.—
John Moritz,
Hartford Courant,
13 Feb. 2026
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The coming-of-age boxing drama opened to strong box office results in Taiwan in January and stars Golden Horse best new performer nominee Lin Yi-ting alongside veterans Tsai Chen-nan and You An-shun.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2026
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Kudrna plans to continue working with the veterans in camp this spring.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
14 Feb. 2026
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Don’t bother looking for fossils; almost no sedimentary rock has had time to form.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Feb. 2026
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The new research focused on three Prototaxites fossils unearthed in the Rhynie chert, a prehistoric land ecosystem near Aberdeen, Scotland.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
5 Feb. 2026
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Now the 10% is for stubborn old fogies who refuse to change their ways and try something new.—
Chris McKeown,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
14 Feb. 2026
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