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having passed its time of use or usefulness
mossy rules of etiquette that date from the Victorian era
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Recent Examples of mossy
There were often empties piled near a fire pit at the mossy edge of the pool, a reminder of what teenagers had been up to the night before.
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Hazlitt, 4 Feb. 2026
Expect to see mossy sandstone cliffs and forests of leafy oak and hemlock while crossing lots of streams and creek beds.
—Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 19 Jan. 2026
The designer recommends replacing the safety of beige with deep ochres, mossy greens, and moody blues that maintain a sense of calm thanks to their roots in nature.
—Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Dec. 2025
This fall, look for dresses in earthy or neutral tones—think browns, mossy greens, beige, black, or gray—that will suit an autumnal palette, with flat shoes with metallic, velvet, or patent leather detail in a complementary color.
—René Chávez Esparza, Glamour, 27 Sep. 2025
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Hazlitt, 4 Feb. 2026
Expect to see mossy sandstone cliffs and forests of leafy oak and hemlock while crossing lots of streams and creek beds.
—Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 19 Jan. 2026
The designer recommends replacing the safety of beige with deep ochres, mossy greens, and moody blues that maintain a sense of calm thanks to their roots in nature.
—Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Dec. 2025
This fall, look for dresses in earthy or neutral tones—think browns, mossy greens, beige, black, or gray—that will suit an autumnal palette, with flat shoes with metallic, velvet, or patent leather detail in a complementary color.
—René Chávez Esparza, Glamour, 27 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mossy
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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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
Adjective
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The atmosphere is perfect, with rusty metal, hanging chains, and dripping water providing a backdrop for a bunch of tense chase scenes and gory chest explosions.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
3 Apr. 2026
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William Clark, who was around the same age, was also unusually tall, though his hair was a rusty red, and sometimes the boys played together.—
Craig Fehrman,
The Conversation,
1 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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“Mossy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mossy. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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