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But these days, many of the traditional Olympic sports are beginning to feel passe to a younger generation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2024

While some shoppers and even Ms. Stangl see the term “work wear” as passe, Banana Republic still has a dedicated section on its website called “The Workwear Edit.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2023

But if it’s passe to declare art good or bad on the merits, consumers and critics need a different way to decide what’s in and out.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2022

"I think the genre has become passe, like beauty pageants used to be a big event on television. It's slipping into that category."

From Reuters ● Mar. 24, 2022

"The matters gothe nat well to passe in Englonde,” he had stated, "nor shall nat do tyll every thyng be common, and that there be no villayns nor gentylmen.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Behind the scenes, away from all of the media rantings and ravings, and the cheap thrill it gives to revive the passé term canoodling, it is surely traumatic and sad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

“The innovation represents something new and is thus creative. However, it is also destructive, as the company whose technology becomes passé is outcompeted.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2025

“He says, ‘People once used to put sugar on their salads, but I can’t believe how passé that is,’” Albala explains.

From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2025

I think it might be passé of me even to ask about it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2024

I even smile when people lay my ugly shawl or passé bonnet, that I bought because they were cheap, and wear for the same reason, at the door of the "eccentricities of genius."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 by Various

Well, Mozart lived in the last days of the old world, and the old world and the thoughts and sentiments of the old world are certainly a little passés now.

From Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians by John F. Runciman

The mother shed no tears; when from her bed she saw us carry it away she looked mournfully on, and as we went out she whispered, "Mes beaux jours sont passés."

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 by Various

"That's right, growl ahead, thou, tes beaux jours sont passés, but for me l'amour, l'amour—que c'est gai, que c'est frais!" he half sung, half shouted.

From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd