obsolescent

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As traditional, human-dependent techniques and analog approaches to creation fade away, it makes the spirit of these increasingly obsolescent facets of society all the more precious.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 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 use of an obsolescent technique to memorialize “Vertigo” is fitting.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2018

When the university increased under Elizabeth, the idea of living in halls in the medi�val fashion, as we have seen, was obsolescent, so that the result of the increase was to enlarge the colleges.

From An American at Oxford by Corbin, John