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But many, and probably most, rules persist as fossilized remains of now-forgotten controversies.

Imagine a world in which every action is governed by fossilized customs.

Bentley explains that revolutionizing fossilized mentalities can be oddly likened to, in his words, boiling a bunny.

Among the debris were several pieces of sandstone marked by black, fossilized plant-remains.

Towards the end of the following summer, however, one of the tusks and an entire side of a fossilized animal were exposed.

Petrified moss or Indian arrow-heads, for specimens of lava or fossilized fern.

Mineralized water circulated through and gradually fossilized the buried trees, changing many to opal.

If a monologue is fossilized poetry, its true rendering should restore the original being to life.

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On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fossilized, such as: hardened, petrified, hard, and rigid.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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