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also fogeys
as in conservatives
a person with old-fashioned ideas
old fogies who said that rap music would never last
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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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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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Among the city’s oldest institutions and one of the largest natural history museums in the American West, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is the place to see fantastical fossils and skeletons.—
Kathryn Romeyn,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Fogies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fogies. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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