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

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 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

The countless codes, now obsolescent, over which dead eyes had grown dim!

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel