disuse

"Any rare changes we do make are usually as a result of changes made by either authoritative bodies or when a name falls into disuse and another name comes into use," it said.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

After a brief resurgence during the Civil War, when it was used as a military route, the road fell into disuse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

It fell into disuse after Congress granted an amnesty to most ex-rebels in 1872.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2024

Yet as bots like ChatGPT become increasingly popular and sophisticated, Vincent and some of his colleagues wonder what will happen if Wikipedia, outflanked by A.I. that has cannibalized it, suffers from disuse and dereliction.

From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2023

Its voice was low, and slow, and rough with disuse.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

That included disused Ministry of Defence properties because they had on-site facilities and were "more contained," she added.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Last month, the authorities announced plans to convert disused state buildings into prisons.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

In dirty t-shirts and flimsy sandals, hundreds of unaccompanied minors slept outdoors in a disused industrial park in Ceuta after swimming to the Spanish territory from Morocco, AFP saw Saturday.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

Would you live in a disused care home, pub or bank in exchange for a heavily discounted rent?

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Here they hesitated before a disused logging trail that led westward from the side of the road, its entrance almost concealed by overhanging branches.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford

From an internal desire on the part of the creature disusing it, to be quit of an organ which it finds troublesome.

From Life and Habit by R. A. (Richard Alexander) Streatfeild

And finally, it is now near two hundred years since the Society of Quakers denied the authority of the rite altogether, and gave good reasons for disusing it.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham

But no mere sentimental or capricious dislike to the pig, on the part of any number of persons, could now procure an enactment for disusing that animal.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain

Oh the general shamefulness of disusing the feet God had given me.

From The Quality of Mercy by William Dean Howells

But how this can be avoided entirely, I know not, but by disusing their goods and letting them perish in their hands.

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams