obsolescent
Example Sentences
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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
This philosophy of disruption demands, above all, that technology continuously drive down labor costs and regularly render itself obsolescent.
From Salon • Jul. 27, 2021
Far from obsolescent, how hardy the ghost story proves as a vessel for collective terror and guilt, for the unspeakable.
From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2018
But in all cases, if time enough be allowed under the cessation of selection, the force of heredity will eventually fall to zero, when the hitherto obsolescent structure will finally become obsolete.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John
Vocabulary lists containing obsolescent
"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 2
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