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
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
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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
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Such works are held as antiquate and mossy; And as regards the younger folk, indeed, They never yet have been so pert and saucy.
From Faust by Bayard Taylor
Seriously, I believe it will antiquate all types of airplanes, prop or jet.
From The Black Star Passes by John Wood Campbell
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
The formula, which originated in 1945, is as antiquated as drive-in theaters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 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Warsh strongly hinted the Fed would do the same, rather than rely primarily on incomplete or outdated government data collected through antiquated methods.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
The county jail was a windowless, antiquated structure that had served as an armory in the decade before the Civil War.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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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