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obsolescent

[ob-suh-les-uhnt] / ˌɒb səˈlɛs ənt /
ADJECTIVE
becoming obsolete
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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

It was opened in 1974 and is now considered obsolescent; a replacement site in Maryland has already been chosen.

From Salon • Feb. 16, 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

The later withdrawal of U.S. missiles from Turkey mildly assuaged Soviet humiliation, although in August, Kennedy had contemplated removing them because they were obsolescent.

From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2022

It is such thoughtless indulgence of muscles growing obsolescent that retards the evolution of our species, a species, sir, which I claim is coessential in fundamental attributes with contemporaneous amphibia.

From The Haunted Pajamas by Elliott, Francis Perry




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