mossbacks

noun

plural of mossback
as in conservatives
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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  1. conservatives
  2. veterans
  3. fossils
  4. fogies
Noun
  • The biggest shock was Roberts’s failure to bring more of the conservatives on board.
    — Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Continue reading … OPINION DAVID MARCUS – Don't blame conservatives.
    — , FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of conservatives
Noun
  • Perhaps Vitello has finally decided to be assertive with one of his veterans.
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Two more AlphaFold veterans, Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, followed Jumper out the door.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of veterans
Noun
  • 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, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026
  • But the world’s appetite for fossils has exploded in recent years, with social media awash in videos of fossil hunters displaying their finds, and prices for perfect specimens soaring.
    — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of fossils
Noun
  • For the benefit of us old fogies?
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Now the 10% is for stubborn old fogies who refuse to change their ways and try something new.
    — Chris McKeown, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Feb. 2026
Definition of fogies
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