passé
Example Sentences
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The arm positions for Mr. Louis and Ms. Chapa passingly resemble archers’ bows or crescent moons.
But these days, many of the traditional Olympic sports are beginning to feel passe to a younger generation.
From Los Angeles Times
“How many have laughed at the church, announcing that she was passe, that her days were over and that they would bury her?” he said in a 2021 Mass.
From Seattle Times
It’s a snappy, gutsy comedy about how kids are spoiled and ignorant, and yet the adult workplace is only passingly more mature.
From New York Times
This felt, he reported, “like hanging horizontally on belts, as if in a suspended state,” a circumstance passingly familiar to anyone who has been on a roller coaster or jumped off a diving board.
From New York Times
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