antiquate
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The state made its own luck by allowing its ferry fleet to antiquate and amass $270 million in deferred maintenance.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
His first move in office was to antiquate newspaper files throughout the world by shaving his mustache and buying a new hat: a stiff, eminently correct black Homburg.
From Time Magazine Archive
It calls for payment of $8,000,000,000 from the U. S. Treasury to build $500,000-a-mile, crow-flight highways which would antiquate for express travel most existing routes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soul, mind, spirit, these old and simple words are the strongest, the profoundest, the surest; age cannot antiquate them, nor science undo them; they last with the rocks, and still go beyond.
From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by David Masson
There is a language fossils speak: 'Tis not like Latin, much less Greek, But quite as dead and antiquate Its silent syllables, and cold; But ah, what meanings they unfold, What histories relate!
From Poems Vol. IV by Hattie Howard
The government has introduced a bill to end antiquated laws preventing Roman Catholic or Jewish prime ministers from being involved in the process of making Church of England appointments.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Despite their hardships, they refused to compromise or mold themselves into someone else’s narrow, antiquated vision.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Additional days by which Trump is extending a waiver of the Jones Act, an antiquated law that requires goods shipped between American ports to be transported on vessels that are U.S.-built, -flagged and -owned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Warsh strongly hinted the Fed would do the same, rather than rely primarily on incomplete or outdated government data collected through antiquated methods.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Like the house itself, the furnishings were antiquated but in good repair.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
Of Chatterton's method of antiquating something has already been said.
From The Rowley Poems by Thomas Chatterton
One would represent me as attempting to undermine our native tongue; another, as modernizing; a third, as antiquating it.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 by Various
