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

“An obsolescent subgenre,” he declared, with conspicuous relish; a “naïve” little form, as outmoded as its cheap effects, the table-tapping and flickering candlelight.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2018

Yep, I’m sounding like a hilariously grumpy, obsolescent old fart.

From Washington Post • May 27, 2016

That part of government which had been concerned with social administration, if it did not end, became at least obsolescent.

From The Acquisitive Society by Tawney, R. H.