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fossils

noun

plural of fossil

as in conservatives

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 fossils Beyond art, Griffin has also been a major buyer of important documents and prehistoric fossils. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 31 Aug. 2026 Neanderthals and Denisovans left behind fossils — from which scientists could extract DNA — as well as identifiable traces in human genes. — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026 Ruzich is a former newspaper reporter who now sells stones and fossils at Affordable Antiques and More in Naperville. — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026 As paleobotanists, my colleagues and I use plant fossils to identify which species once lived in a place. — Regan E. Dunn, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2026 The source of historical botany was measured through the archives of plant fossils until the 1500s, upon the discovery of papermaking. — Candace Barone, Florida Times-Union, 15 Aug. 2026 There are also interactive experiences like digging for fossils, encountering cownose stingrays and even observing birds of prey in their desert habitats, completely untethered. — Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 14 Aug. 2026 Reading the forest from fossil leaves As paleobotanists, my colleagues and I use plant fossils to identify which species once lived in a place. — Regan E. Dunn, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2026 At a fossil site in northwestern Canada called Raven’s Throat River, the mudstone still holds 500-million-year-old coprolites, some as wide as five centimeters, along with complete fossils of trilobites and mollusk-like hyoliths with conical shells. — ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026

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Some Jewish conservatives have pushed back on the notion that there's any divide between Vance and Jewish Republicans on Israel.

— Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026
From rural communities to large cities, pushback against the initiatives of Silicon Valley is forming a unique coalition of liberals and conservatives.

— Christopher Cann, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2026

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The cost to book the arena in those days was a whopping $1,000 a night, though that was discounted to $688 for the American Legion veterans.

— Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2026
The new microdramas platform from Hollywood veterans Jana Winograde, Susan Rovner and Lloyd Braun has launched with an initial slate of projects spanning the horror, comedy and animation genres.

— Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2026

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