obsolescent
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DVRs aren’t needed for streaming services; that’s what has made them obsolescent.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025
But Randolph and Hastings always planned on video streaming rendering the DVD-by-mail service obsolescent once technology advanced to the point that watching movies and TV shows through internet connections became viable.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 28, 2023
Hence, to the RSC, whether damaged or obsolescent, haphazardly hoarded devices represent a potentially massive boon for the green economy.
From Salon • May 12, 2022
“An obsolescent subgenre,” he declared, with conspicuous relish; a “naïve” little form, as outmoded as its cheap effects, the table-tapping and flickering candlelight.
From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2018
The “nominal horse-power” by which engines are sometimes rated is an arbitrary and obsolescent term of indefinite significance.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
Vocabulary lists containing obsolescent
"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 2
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