obsolescent
Example Sentences
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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
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 Times’s Sarah Lyall described le Carré as “one of the last great practitioners of the increasingly obsolescent art of letter-writing.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2022
For the most part, they remain deeply invested in an obsolescent system that is teetering on collapse.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2022
The course was very thorough, covering much that was obsolescent, and a good deal that was definitely dead.
From Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield
Vocabulary lists containing obsolescent
"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 2
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