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
As research progressed, the scale and unique anatomy of these fossils gradually steered scientists toward a fungal interpretation.
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Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Because their physical appearance has changed very little over time, supported by a slow rate of evolution, sturgeon have been called living fossils.
—Logan Kistler, JSTOR Daily, 3 Apr. 2025
Setting out in search of answers, Janis and her team turned to fossil fragments from the Late Cretaceous, before the disappearance of the dinosaurs.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025
The space features exhibits focused on the area’s past, from wooly mammoth fossils found in the area to a glimpse into the salt mining industry that brought the region to prominence.
—Caroline Eubanks, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2025
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Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Because their physical appearance has changed very little over time, supported by a slow rate of evolution, sturgeon have been called living fossils.
—Logan Kistler, JSTOR Daily, 3 Apr. 2025
Setting out in search of answers, Janis and her team turned to fossil fragments from the Late Cretaceous, before the disappearance of the dinosaurs.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025
The space features exhibits focused on the area’s past, from wooly mammoth fossils found in the area to a glimpse into the salt mining industry that brought the region to prominence.
—Caroline Eubanks, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fossil
Noun
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The clip has aired to the delight of conservatives online.—
Arick Wierson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Apr. 2025
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And Meta has taken a number of steps to appease Trump, including ending its fact-checking program, something Trump supporters and other conservatives have long attacked as biased.—
Bobby Allyn,
NPR,
15 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The veteran actress reinforced her romantic bonafides in the starry ensemble movies Think Like a Man and Think Like a Man Too (2014) while finding a home on TV in Being Mary Jane (2013–2019).—
EW.com,
EW.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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Drake Baldwin thriving in role Rookie catcher Drake Baldwin’s role has been reduced since veteran Sean Murphy returned from the injured list, but Baldwin is excelling in his opportunities to catch a couple of times a week and also DH or pinch hit occasionally.—
David O'Brien,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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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And some of us older fogies, Joni Mitchell and Carole King.—
Lars Brandle,
Billboard,
10 Oct. 2023
Noun
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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 27 Apr. 2025.
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