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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

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

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

We wish the name malignant were obsolete and antiquate, if so be the thing itself, which is such a root of bitterness, were extirpated out of the church.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

A little peaceful study and development of submarines and aircraft will antiquate our present antidotes.

From Another Sheaf by Galsworthy, John

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Warsh strongly hinted the Fed would do the same, rather than rely primarily on incomplete or outdated government data collected through antiquated methods.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

Being 130 years old doesn’t make it too antiquated to follow.

From MarketWatch May 27, 2026

“So the problem is that the shelter has an antiquated filing system, and the solution is that you are going to update it?”

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty

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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