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
View gallery - 4 images Electric passenger ferries offer a promising alternative to polluting fossil-fuel guzzlers given the relatively short hops these vessels need to make per trip.
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Stefan Ionescu
february 04, New Atlas, 4 Feb. 2026
It’s most often used on humans or animals, but can also peer inside fossils, rocks, and archaeological artifacts.
—Sarah Kuta, Popular Science, 4 Feb. 2026
This is the kind of fossil that Kgasi is looking for.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 4 Feb. 2026
With previous showstoppers such as The Blooming of the Mosasaurs—a bold blue ensemble inspired by a prehistoric marine reptile whose fossils have been discovered in Angola, Africa, as well as in Louisiana—Zulu plans every suit to be his best one yet.
—Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 3 Feb. 2026
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Stefan Ionescu
february 04, New Atlas, 4 Feb. 2026
It’s most often used on humans or animals, but can also peer inside fossils, rocks, and archaeological artifacts.
—Sarah Kuta, Popular Science, 4 Feb. 2026
This is the kind of fossil that Kgasi is looking for.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 4 Feb. 2026
With previous showstoppers such as The Blooming of the Mosasaurs—a bold blue ensemble inspired by a prehistoric marine reptile whose fossils have been discovered in Angola, Africa, as well as in Louisiana—Zulu plans every suit to be his best one yet.
—Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 3 Feb. 2026
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Trump, meanwhile, was among a group of conservatives who instead championed Turning Point USA’s alternative to the Super Bowl halftime show, which featured Kid Rock as a headliner.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
11 Feb. 2026
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This is a problem among grassroots conservatives and progressives, as Calhoun detailed.—
David M. Drucker,
Twin Cities,
11 Feb. 2026
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Stafford, a 17-year veteran, won the award by finishing ahead of New England quarterback Drake Maye in balloting by a panel of 50 journalists who regularly cover the NFL.—
Gary Klein,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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The Seahawks ranked third in total pressures and seventh in sacks this season, thanks to a front seven that includes a rotating set of outside linebackers in veterans DeMarcus Lawrence and Uchenna Nwosu and younger pass rushers Derick Hall and Boye Mafe.—
Doug Kyed,
Boston Herald,
5 Feb. 2026
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Old fogey-ish, ungrateful and stupid.—
Katie Hafner,
Scientific American,
10 Sep. 2025
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These are people who know AI and have grown up with this stuff that these old fogies haven't.—
Alison Snyder,
Axios,
23 Feb. 2025
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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 15 Feb. 2026.
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