passe
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The dreamy vistas of domestic arts, which may have once seemed frivolous, passé, even politically retrograde for some, become a source of deep allure for people of different political stripes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
“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
I think it might be passé of me even to ask about it.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2024
Li té si malin, yé té pelé li plus passé cinquante dix ans.
From Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation by Harris, Joel Chandler
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