as in conservative
a person with old-fashioned ideas
those mossbacks at the intelligence agency didn't get the memo that the world had changed
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Recent Examples of mossback
This man performed in all of Shakespeare’s plays, Assumed all parts from mossbacks to boys young.
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Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2019
Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mossback
Noun
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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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The pair then compared the features with other puzzling fossils found in the region over recent years.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN,
24 Jan. 2025
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For instance, due to new fossil finds, many dinosaurs are now known to have feathers.—
John Yoo and John Shu,
Newsweek,
23 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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“Mossback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mossback. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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