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Meanings of fossilized in English

Set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs.

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        Examples for "fossilised"
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        Animals living in tropical areas tend to leave fewer fossilised remains behind.
        BBC
        2
        For amber is the fossilised resin of trees of the pine family.
        The Irish Times
        3
        Broken beams, collapsed roofs, exploded metal shutters and fossilised merchandise crumbled underfoot.
        The Guardian
        4
        We're getting quite fossilised down here; Eve's gone and left us again.
        Saint's Progress
        5
        Trees once grew here too, giving the name to the fossilised forest.
        The South African
        1
        Social policy has ossified, no longer attuned to families with young children.
        The Guardian
        2
        By age two thousand, their thoughts had completely ossified, losing all creativity.
        Taking care of gods
        3
        The ossified heart of the selfish man is closed against divine compassion.
        Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke
        4
        At her age the hyoid wings and body aren't yet ossified.
        Bones to Ashes
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        Not surprisingly, the membership has grown somewhat ossified over the decades.
        Ebony
        Usage of fossilized in English
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        Similar terrestrial disruption can be inferred from changes in fossilized plant spores.
        Wired
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        Some of this undigested material was fossilized and can be studied today.
        Reuters
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        I demorphed amid the fossilized remains of sewage from a dozen species.
        The Andalite Chronicles
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        His face fossilized and his little remaining vitality vanished in an instant.
        To the end of the land
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        Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, ever becomes fossilized.
        A short history of nearly everything
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        The Boxer uprising was the breaking up of this fossilized conservatism.
        New Forces in Old China: An Inevitable Awakening
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        On the ground, soil samples returned fossilized evidence of maize, squash and manioc.
        Wired
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        Among the debris were several pieces of sandstone marked by black, fossilized plant-remains.
        The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
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        Beth videotaped my little fossilized moment, and we watch it over and over.
        Choke
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        Those rocks also contain the fossilized tentacle tracks of that creature out there.
        The illuminatus! trilogy
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        NASA astrobiologist Richard Hoover thinks he's found fossilized alien bacteria inside a meteorite.
        Wired
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        The blade of the dagger is purest Damascene work, the handle of fossilized ivory.
        A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán
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        He strolled silently past abandoned derricks and fossilized cranes, wholly intent on his thoughts.
        The Complete Alien Omnibus
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        Previously, the elongated melanosomes were thought to be fossilized bacteria.
        Wired
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        No, what lurks within that tangle of fossilized forest there is much more amazing.
        Fiendish deeds
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        These were instead the remains of seafloor spreading, fossilized here.
        The Descent
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