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obsolescent

[ob-suh-les-uhnt] / ˌɒb səˈlɛs ənt /
ADJECTIVE
becoming obsolete
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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 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 Israel Zangwill


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