as in conservative
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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Recent Examples of mossback
This man performed in all of Shakespeare’s plays, Assumed all parts from mossbacks to boys young.
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Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2019
Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mossback
Noun
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By 2010, however, this relationship had inverted, with conservatives expressing the lowest levels of trust in science.—
Matt Motta,
Scientific American,
10 July 2025
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Nevada’s Experience: While the idea has support from both liberals and conservatives, the biggest existing attempt to do so, in Nevada, has so far created little affordable housing.—
Abe Streep,
ProPublica,
8 July 2025
Noun
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These are programs that deal exclusively with veterans, so the staff there have an appreciation and a sensitivity to issues that veterans experience.—
Laura Schulte,
jsonline.com,
14 July 2025
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The veteran will report on July 22 and the team will hold their first practice the next day.—
Antwan Staley,
New York Daily News,
14 July 2025
Noun
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That likely explains why the impression of the fossil housed at the Senckenberg Natural History Museum in Germany had long been classified as Homoeosaurus maximiliani.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
11 July 2025
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The larger of the two fossils unfortunately didn’t survive its encounter with diggers’ drill bit.—
Andrew Paul Jul 10,
Popular Science,
10 July 2025
Noun
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These are people who know AI and have grown up with this stuff that these old fogies haven't.—
Alison Snyder,
Axios,
23 Feb. 2025
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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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“Mossback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mossback. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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