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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According to the museum, more than 150 fossils of these prehistoric creatures have been documented to date statewide, with around one-third of them coming from Orange County, where the latest bones were found.
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Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2024
Herr was waiting for him at the top, where the rock formations were bleached and pocked with fossils.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
As Shutdown Nears More Of North Korea’s Giant Howitzers Roll Into Russia
American mastodon (Mammut americanum) fossils have been found throughout North and Central America, revealing that the massive creatures stood nearly 10 feet tall at their highest point with tusks that curved upward.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Originally researchers wondered if the craftsmen were working on already old fossils.
—CBS News, 20 Dec. 2024
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Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2024
Herr was waiting for him at the top, where the rock formations were bleached and pocked with fossils.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
As Shutdown Nears More Of North Korea’s Giant Howitzers Roll Into Russia
American mastodon (Mammut americanum) fossils have been found throughout North and Central America, revealing that the massive creatures stood nearly 10 feet tall at their highest point with tusks that curved upward.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Originally researchers wondered if the craftsmen were working on already old fossils.
—CBS News, 20 Dec. 2024
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Donations also flooded in from ABC Supply Chairwoman Diane Hendricks, Beal Bank Chairman Andrew Beal, and other wealthy conservatives, according to filings.Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Dec. 2024
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Cannon has written that Reagan's pollster told him the issue was primarily of interest to hardcore conservatives.Ron Elving, NPR, 28 Dec. 2024
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An Air Force veteran named Scott Braley teaches all of the school’s radiation-safety courses.Abe Streep, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2024
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Lansing was also a military veteran, serving from Oct. 1981 to April 1992 with the U.S. Army, his LinkedIn page shows.Laura A. Bischoff, The Enquirer, 27 Dec. 2024
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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 5 Jan. 2025.
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