as in conservative
a person with old-fashioned ideas
some old fossil who thinks that a boy and a girl shouldn't be together unsupervised until they are engaged
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Recent Examples of fossil
More than 700 fossils found in southwestern China’s Yunnan province offer a window into life from 539 million years ago, during the waning end of the Ediacaran period, a time of simple but strange animals that lived two-dimensionally in the oceans, never going up or down, researchers said.
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ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
Cave water and minerals affect fossils over time — bones absorb new material, making traditional dating methods less reliable.
—Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2026
Instead of the cold, dry grasslands scientists assumed dominated the region, these fossils point toward something warmer, wetter and far more forested.
—Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Mar. 2026
Genetic examination showed the latest find was unambiguously a dog, domesticated and living off human food; until now, fossils of true dogs were not known until 10,000 years ago.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 27 Mar. 2026
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ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
Cave water and minerals affect fossils over time — bones absorb new material, making traditional dating methods less reliable.
—Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2026
Instead of the cold, dry grasslands scientists assumed dominated the region, these fossils point toward something warmer, wetter and far more forested.
—Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Mar. 2026
Genetic examination showed the latest find was unambiguously a dog, domesticated and living off human food; until now, fossils of true dogs were not known until 10,000 years ago.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 27 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fossil
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Those comments largely served as a testament to the staunch conservative’s willingness to work across the aisle to secure funding for his district.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
1 Apr. 2026
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The court, in which conservatives hold a 6-3 majority, will decide whether to uphold its 1898 ruling that a man born in San Francisco to Chinese parents could be an American citizen.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2026
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The play, like the movie, is loosely based on a robbery that took place in 1972, on a boiling-hot August day, when an eccentric, deep-in-debt Vietnam veteran named John Wojtowicz entered a Chase bank in Brooklyn with a gun and two accomplices, hoping for a quick score.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
2 Apr. 2026
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Tickets are $15, general admission; and $10 for veterans, students, seniors, and PWD.—
Christina Mayo,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2026
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For the benefit of us old fogies?—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
30 Mar. 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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This man performed in all of Shakespeare’s plays, Assumed all parts from mossbacks to boys young.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Sep. 2019
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With his piano-pounding performances, wild vocals, bouffant hair and makeup, Little Richard burst onto the musical scene in the 1950s and shook up the stuffed shirts with a string of his hit songs that got both black and white people dancing.—
NBC News,
NBC News,
9 May 2020
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Karen Knorr’s photos of the private members’ clubs of London in the early 1980s are full of stuffed shirts wearing gleaming brogues.—
The Economist,
The Economist,
25 Feb. 2020
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“Fossil.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fossil. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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