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
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
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
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 projections of period décor were charming, as was the slightly antiquated rhymed English text of the titles, but the undirected singers missed the energy of a fully realized performance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 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Warsh strongly hinted the Fed would do the same, rather than rely primarily on incomplete or outdated government data collected through antiquated methods.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 race would be one-on-one, though not officially a match race; by antiquated racing rules, a match had to be a purseless race.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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
Of Chatterton's method of antiquating something has already been said.
From The Rowley Poems by Thomas Chatterton
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