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
The pro-Europe crowd pointed to a set of remarkably humanlike fossils that had been unearthed in 1912 in Piltdown, a town south of London.
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Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
This giant shelled mammal fossil may hold clues National parks are the highest level of conservation status in Chile.
—John Bartlett, NPR, 12 Jan. 2025
At the center of this volcanic fossil is a vent that is around 25 miles (40 km) wide.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 Jan. 2025
The description of the new species was based on the discovery of fossils unearthed between 2013 and 2016 by University of Wisconsin–Madison Geology Museum (UWMGM) field crews at a site in what is now Wyoming.
—Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
This giant shelled mammal fossil may hold clues National parks are the highest level of conservation status in Chile.
—John Bartlett, NPR, 12 Jan. 2025
At the center of this volcanic fossil is a vent that is around 25 miles (40 km) wide.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 Jan. 2025
The description of the new species was based on the discovery of fossils unearthed between 2013 and 2016 by University of Wisconsin–Madison Geology Museum (UWMGM) field crews at a site in what is now Wyoming.
—Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fossil
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In 2022, conservatives were overjoyed to see the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, returning the regulation of abortions to the states.—
Nicole Russell,
USA TODAY,
23 Jan. 2025
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Share [Findings] In Europe, conservatives are outbreeding progressives.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harper's Magazine,
22 Jan. 2025
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Kevin Jiang was a 26-year-old Yale graduate student, an Army veteran, and, his friends say, a man of faith who volunteered with the homeless.—
Emma Steele,
CBS News,
26 Jan. 2025
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Both were veteran criminalists who had assisted local law enforcement agencies processing complex crime scenes and prosecuting major crimes.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacramento Bee,
26 Jan. 2025
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And some of us older fogies, Joni Mitchell and Carole King.—
Lars Brandle,
Billboard,
10 Oct. 2023
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The parents—a dapper young fogy with ramrod posture and a soulful, slightly rumpled bluestocking—stand behind two tidy little girls in matching sailor suits.—
Judith Thurman,
The New Yorker,
11 Sep. 2023
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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 1 Feb. 2025.
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