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obsoleteness



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The communities “are very angry because of the destruction of their livelihoods resulting from the obsoleteness of Shell’s equipment and are concerned the regulator and Shell will blame sabotage by the residents,” Dumnamene said.

From Washington Times Jun. 26, 2023

She was always attracted by its age and its stranded obsoleteness.

From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Therefore, in spite of its obsoleteness in matters of fact, his history remains readable, as a body of descriptive criticism, or a continuous literary essay.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

The reader is, therefore, embarrassed at once with dead and with foreign languages, with obsoleteness and innovation.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson

At the obsoleteness of Chaucer's own diction this critic, who writes entirely "for the better brought-up sort," is obliged to shake his learned head.

From Chaucer by Sir Adolphus William Ward




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