fossilized

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This was a fossilized program taking on a divisive, peripatetic local who’d pledged his prior job was going to be his “last job.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

"Examining the growth rings preserved in the fossilized bones allowed us to reconstruct the animals' year-by-year growth histories."

From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2026

To better understand what filled that space, researchers including a team from the University of Tokyo analyzed CT scans of fossilized Triceratops skulls.

From Science Daily • Feb. 22, 2026

However, the skull had fossilized with the mouth closed, hiding internal structures such as the brain case.

From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026

I take table 24 their reheated main courses, which they immediately reject as either too cold or fossilized by the microwave.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich