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antiquate

[an-ti-kweyt] / ˈæn tɪˌkweɪt /


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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

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 Taylor, Bayard

Seriously, I believe it will antiquate all types of airplanes, prop or jet.

From The Black Star Passes by Campbell, John Wood

Michel’s son, Matt, has sought to modernize the team with a score-keeping app that has proved more reliable than Michel’s antiquated paper method.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 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Warsh strongly hinted the Fed would do the same, rather than rely primarily on incomplete or outdated government data collected through antiquated methods.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

So what’s the catalyst for his noteworthy preoccupation with masculinity and all these archetypal characters who embody its antiquated themes?

From Salon May 27, 2026

Carr has long argued that the ownership limits are antiquated and anti-competitive and should be changed.

From MarketWatch May 19, 2026

I knew that the Senate, with fourteen of its one hundred members being female, was not quite as antiquated as it had once been.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Of Chatterton's method of antiquating something has already been said.

From The Rowley Poems by Chatterton, Thomas

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




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