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antediluvian, Colonel Blimp, fogy (also fogey), fossil, fud, fuddy-duddy, mossback, reactionary, stick-in-the-mud, stuffed shirt
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Now-extinct giant bird species have been associated with islands in the past like the dodo, a giant pigeon found on Fiji, the Flores' giant stork and Hawaii's giant ducks. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, "Fossil find reveals that the world's largest parrot was over 3 feet tall," 6 Aug. 2019 In interviews and news conferences, Thurman has described 40-year-old Pacquiao as everything from a dinosaur to a dodo bird. — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, "Boxer Keith Thurman on Saturday showdown with Manny Pacquiao: 'This is a legacy fight'," 19 July 2019 Meanwhile, diversity of approach has gone the way of the dodo bird. — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, "You get a whiff of failure when boiling down baseball numbers," 22 June 2019 But if quantum physicists have their way, such weaknesses will soon go the way of the dodo. — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, "The Quantum Internet Is Emerging, One Experiment at a Time," 19 June 2019 The most pointed of the prints show the rings of a tree, each signifying some historic event dating as far back as the construction of the Great Wall of China, the destruction of Pompeii, the extinction of the dodo. — Susan Dunne, courant.com, "Insects swarm over Flo-Gris as part of âFragile Earthâ exhibit," 6 June 2019 Extinct flightless birdsâthe moa of New Zealand and the dodoâwere favorites, along with the Yangtze River dolphin. — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, "Meet the Scientists Bringing Extinct Species Back From the Dead," 9 Oct. 2018 After dodos disappeared from Mauritius, in the seventeenth century, naturalists came to believe that the bird had only been a legend. — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, "The Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger," 16 Jan. 2012 Museum of ZoologyNerd out over skeletons of extinct creatures like the dodo at this on campus institution, which reopened in June after a five-year restoration. — Jo Rodgers, Condé Nast Traveler, "Cambridge Is Worth More than Just a Day Trip from London," 17 Oct. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'dodo.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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