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The mud helped to preserve and fossilize the wood.
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At one point in their odyssey, Ben and Thelma drop in on an old friend (Bunny Levine) who’s become fossilized in the amber of early dementia; the sequence ends with one of the best gags in the movie, but the sadness lingers.
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Ty Burr, Washington Post, 20 June 2024
In this narrative, the Soviet Union had long been fossilized economically and ideologically, its military overextended.
—Vladislav Zubok, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2022
Set in a form of fossil resin called copal, the specimen represents a new species named Myrmarachne colombiana, and is the first ant-mimicking spider from Colombia, whether fossilized or non-fossilized.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
The acid decays the tooth, but also destroys DNA and stops the dental plaque from fossilizing and hardening over time.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2024
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Ty Burr, Washington Post, 20 June 2024
In this narrative, the Soviet Union had long been fossilized economically and ideologically, its military overextended.
—Vladislav Zubok, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2022
Set in a form of fossil resin called copal, the specimen represents a new species named Myrmarachne colombiana, and is the first ant-mimicking spider from Colombia, whether fossilized or non-fossilized.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
The acid decays the tooth, but also destroys DNA and stops the dental plaque from fossilizing and hardening over time.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2024
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fossilize
verb
fos·sil·ize
ˈfäs-ə-ˌlīz 
fossilized; fossilizing
: to change or become changed into a fossil
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