passe
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Behind the scenes, away from all of the media rantings and ravings, and the cheap thrill it gives to revive the passé term canoodling, it is surely traumatic and sad.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
“The innovation represents something new and is thus creative. However, it is also destructive, as the company whose technology becomes passé is outcompeted.”
From MarketWatch • Oct. 21, 2025
Maybe it’s inevitable that "Black Mirror," once upon a time a show of unnerving political and social prescience, would become not simply passé but past expiration.
From Salon • Apr. 10, 2025
Whole Foods replaced Mrs. Gooch’s, but after being deracinated by Amazon, it became passé, less and less a signifier of status.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024
Mémoires du cardinal de Retz, contenant ce qui s’est passé de plus remarquable en France, pendant les premieres années du regne de Louis XIV.
From The Library of William Congreve by Hodges, John Cunyus
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